ective
_systems_, more or less complex sets of schemes, organized
either by traditional association or with a conscious regard to
the greatest possible efficiency of the result, but with only a
secondary, or even with no interest in the particular desires,
abilities and experiences of the individuals who have to
perform these activities.

There is no pre-existing harmony whatever between the
individual and the social factors of personal evolution, and
the fundamental tendencies of the individual are always in some
disaccordance with the fundamental tendencies of social
control. Personal evolution is always a struggle between the
individual and society--a struggle for self-expression on the
part of the individual, for his subjection on the part of
society--and it is in the total course of this struggle that
the personality--not as a static "essence" but as a dynamic,
continually evolving set of activities--manifests and
constructs itself.[51]

c) In general, standards of behavior that are in the mores are not the
subject of discussion, except so far as discussion is necessary to
determine whether this or that act falls under one or the other of the
accepted social sanctions. The political as distinguished from the
cultural process is concerned with just those matters in regard to which
there is division and difference. Politics is concerned with issues.

The Negro, particularly in the southern states, is a constant theme of
popular discussion. Every time a Negro finds himself in a new situation,
or one in which the white population is unaccustomed to see him, the
thing provokes comment in both races. On the other hand, when a
southerner asks the question: "Would you want your daughter to marry a
Negro?" it is time for discussion to cease. Any questions of relations
between the races can always be immediately disposed of as soon as it is
seen to come, directly or indirectly, under the intolerable formula.
Political questions are matters of compromise and expediency.
Miscegenation, on the other hand, is contrary to the mores. As such the
rule against it is absolute.

The political process, by which a society or social group formulates its
wishes and enforces them, goes on within the limits of the mores and is
carried on by public discussion, legislation, and the adjudication of
the courts.

d) The economic process, so far as it can