Individual Man.

15. Assimilation and Accommodation in Their Relations to the Educational
Process.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

1. What do you understand Simons to mean by the term "assimilation"?

2. What is the difference between amalgamation and assimilation?

3. How are assimilation and amalgamation interrelated?

4. What do you consider to be the difference between Trotter's
explanation of human evolution and that of Crile?

5. What do you understand Trotter to mean by the gregarious instinct as
a mechanism controlling conduct?

6. Of what significance is the distinction made by Trotter between (a)
the three individual instincts, and (b) the gregarious instincts?

7. What is the significance of material and non-material cultural
elements for the study of race contact and intermixture?

8. How do you explain the difference in rapidity of assimilation of the
various types of cultural elements?

9. What factors promoted and impeded the extension of Roman culture in
Gaul?

10. What social factors were involved in the origin of the French
language?

11. To what extent does the extension of a cultural language involve
assimilation?

12. In what sense do the cultural languages compete with each other?

13. Do you agree with the prediction that within a century English will
be the vernacular of a quarter of the people of the world? Justify your
position.

14. Does Park's definition of assimilation differ from that of Simons?

15. What do you understand Park to mean when he says, "Social
institutions are not founded in similarities any more than they are
founded in differences, but in relations, and in the mutual
interdependence of the parts"? What is the relation of this principle to
the process of assimilation?

16. What do you understand to be the difference between the type of
assimilation (a) that makes for group solidarity and corporate action,
and (b) that makes for formal like-mindedness? What conditions favor
the one or the other type of assimilation?

17. What do you understand by the term "Americanization"?

18. Is there a difference between Americanization and Prussianization?

19. With what programs of Americanization are you familiar? Are they
adequate from the standpoint of the sociological interpretation of
assimilation?

20. In what way is language both a means and a product of assimilation?

21. What is meant by the phrases "apperception mass," "universes of
discourse," and "d