nterprise, labor union, army, boys' gang, boys'
club, Christianity, humanitarian movement?
18. What do you think Simmel means by the term "accommodation"?
19. How is accommodation related to peace?
20. Does accommodation end struggle?
21. In what sense does commerce imply accommodation?
22. What type of interaction is involved in compromise? What
illustrations would you suggest to bring out your point?
23. Does compromise make for progress?
24. Is a compromise better or worse than either or both of the proposals
involved in it?
25. What, in your judgment, is the relation of personal competition to
the division of labor?
26. What examples of division of labor outside the economic field would
you suggest?
27. What do you understand to be the relation of personal competition
and group competition?
28. In what different ways does status (a) grow out of, and (b)
prevent, the processes of personal competition and group competition?
29. To what extent, at the present time, is success in life determined
by personal competition, and social selection by status?
30. In what ways does the division of labor make for social solidarity?
31. What is the difference between social solidarity based upon
like-mindedness and based upon diverse-mindedness?
FOOTNOTES:
[221] _Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology_, I, 15, 8.
[222] _Social Organization_, p. 4.
[223] A teacher in the public schools of Chicago came in possession of
the following letter written to a friend in Mississippi by a Negro boy
who had come to the city from the South two months previously. It
illustrates his rapid accommodation to the situation including the
hostile Irish group (the Wentworth Avenue "Mickeys").
Dear leon I write to you--to let you hear from me--Boy you
don't know the time we have with Sled. it Snow up here Regular.
We Play foot Ball. But Now we have So much Snow we don't Play
foot Ball any More. We Ride on Sled. Boy I have a Sled call The
king of The hill and She king to. tell Mrs. Sara that Coln
Roscoe Conklin Simon Spoke at St Mark the church we Belong to.
Gus I havnt got chance to Beat But to Boy. Sack we show Runs
them Mickeys. Boy them scoundle is bad on Wentworth Avenue.
Add 3123a Breton St Chi ill.
[224] From Daniel G. Brinton, _The Basis of Social Relations_, pp.
194-99. (Courtesy of G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1902.)
[225] From Dr. H. J
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