efinitions of the situations"? What is their
significance for assimilation?

22. In what way does assimilation involve the mediation of individual
differences?

23. Does the segregation of immigrants make for or against assimilation?

24. In what ways do primary and secondary contacts, imitation and
suggestion, competition, conflict and accommodation, enter into the
process of assimilation?

FOOTNOTES:

[241] Adapted from Sarah E. Simons, "Social Assimilation," in the
_American Journal of Sociology_, VI (1901), 790-801.

[242] Adapted from W. Trotter, "Herd Instinct," in the _Sociological
Review_, I (1908), 231-42.

[243] From W. H. R. Rivers, "The Ethnological Analysis of Culture," in
_Nature_, LXXXVII (1911), 358-60.

[244] From John H. Cornyn, "French Language," in the _Encyclopedia
Americana_, XI (1919), 646-47.

[245] Adapted from E. H. Babbitt, "The Geography of the Great
Languages," in _World's Work_, XV (1907-8), 9903-7.

[246] From Robert E. Park, "Racial Assimilation in Secondary Groups," in
the _Publications of the American Sociological Society_, VIII (1914),
66-72.

[247] The three selections under this heading are adapted from
_Memorandum on Americanization_, prepared by the Division of Immigrant
Heritages, of the Study of Methods of Americanization, of the Carnegie
Corporation, New York City, 1919.

[248] See chap. i, pp. 16-24.

[249] See _Menighetskalenderen_. (Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg
Publishing Co. 1917.)

CHAPTER XII

SOCIAL CONTROL

I. INTRODUCTION

1. Social Control Defined

Social control has been studied, but, in the wide extension that
sociology has given to the term, it has not been defined. All social
problems turn out finally to be problems of social control. In the
introductory chapter to this volume social problems were divided into
three classes: Problems (a) of administration, (b) of policy and
polity, (c) of social forces and human nature.[250] Social control may
be studied in each one of these categories. It is with social forces and
human nature that sociology is mainly concerned. Therefore it is from
this point of view that social control will be considered in this
chapter.

In the four preceding chapters the process of interaction, in its four
typical forms, competition, conflict, accommodation, and assimilation,
has been analyzed and described. The community and the natural order
within the limits of the community, it appeared, are an effect