onditions is a dictatorship a necessary form of control?
Why?

8. In what way does the crowd control its members?

9. Describe and analyze your behavior in a crowd. Were you conscious of
control by the group?

10. What is the mechanism of control in the public?

11. In what sense is ceremony a control?

12. How do music, rhythm, and art enter into social control?

13. Analyze the mechanism of the following forms of ceremonial control:
the salute, the visit, the decoration, forms of address, presents,
greetings. What other forms of ceremonial control occur to you?

14. What is the relation of fashions to ceremonial control?

15. What is the meaning to the individual of ceremony?

16. What are the values and limitations of ceremonial control?

17. What do you understand by "prestige" in interpreting control through
leadership?

18. In what sense is prestige an aspect of personality?

19. What relation, if any, is there between prestige and prejudice?

20. How do you explain the prestige of the white man in South East
Africa? Does the white man always have prestige among colored races?

21. What is the relation of taboo to contact? (See pp. 291-93.)

22. Why does taboo refer both to things "holy" and things "unclean"?

23. How does taboo function for social control?

24. Describe and analyze the mechanism of control through taboo in a
selected group.

25. What examples do you discover of American taboos?

26. What is the mechanism of control by the myth?

27. "Myths are projections of our hopes and of our fears." Explain with
reference to the Freudian wish.

28. How do you explain the growth of a legend? Make an analysis of the
origin and development of the legend.

29. Under what conditions does the press promote the growth of myths and
legends?

30. Does control by public opinion exist outside of democracies?

31. What is the relation of the majority and the minority to public
opinion?

32. What is the distinction made by Lowell between (a) an effective
majority, and (b) a numerical majority, with reference to public
opinion?

33. What is the relation of mores to public opinion?

34. How do you distinguish between public opinion, advertising, and
propaganda as means and forms of social control?

35. What is the relation of news to social control?

36. "The news columns are common carriers." Discuss the implications of
this statement.

37. How do you explain the psychology of propagan