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e to meet the problem of sickness; an investigation of the police force; a study of attitudes toward war; a survey of the contacts of racial groups; an investigation for the purpose of improving the technique of workers in a social agency; a study of the experiments in self-government among prisoners in penal institutions. 32. Is the description of great cities as "social laboratories" metaphor or fact? 33. What do you understand by the statement: Sociology will become an experimental science as soon as it can state its problems in such a way that the results in one instance show what can be done in another? 34. What would be the effect upon political life if sociology were able to predict with some precision the effects of political action, for example, the effect of prohibition? 35. Would you favor turning over the government to control of experts as soon as sociology became a positive science? Explain. 36. How far may the politician who makes a profession of controlling elections be regarded as a practicing sociologist? 37. What is the distinction between sociology as an art and as a science? 38. Distinguish between research and investigation as the terms are used in the text. 39. What illustrations in American society occur to you of the (a) autocratic and (b) democratic methods of social change? 40. "All social problems turn out finally to be problems of group life." Are there any exceptions? 41. Select twelve groups at random and enter under the heads in the classification of social groups. What groups are difficult to classify? 42. Study the organization and structure of one of the foregoing groups in terms of (a) statistical facts about it; (b) its institutional aspect; (c) its heritages; and (d) its collective opinion. 43. "All progress implies a certain amount of disorganization." Explain. 44. What do you understand to be the differences between the various social processes: (a) historical, (b) cultural, (c) economic, (d) political? 45. What is the significance of the relative diameters of the areas of the cultural, political, and economic processes? 46. "The person is an individual who has status." Does an animal have status? 47. "In a given group the status of every member is determined by his relation to every other member of that group." Give an illustration. 48. Why are the problems of the person, problems of the group as well? 49. What does the organization of the
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