lity depends upon his status in the group?

46. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
Is personality adequately defined in terms of a person's conception of
his role?

47. What is the sociological significance of the saying, "If you would
have a virtue, feign it"?

48. What, according to Bechterew, is the relation of personality to the
social _milieu_?

49. What do you understand by the personality of peoples? What is the
relation of the personality of peoples and the personalities of
individuals who constitute the peoples?

50. What do you understand by the difference between nature and nurture?

51. What are acquired characters? How are they transmitted?

52. What do you understand by the Mendelian principles of inheritance:
(a) the hypothesis of unit characters; (b) the law of dominance; and
(c) the law of segregation?

53. What illustrations of the differences between instinct and tradition
would you suggest?

54. What is the difference between the blue eye as a defect in
pigmentation, and of feeble-mindedness as a defective characteristic?

55. Should it be the policy of society to eliminate all members below a
certain mental level either by segregation or by more drastic measures?

56. What principles of treatment of practical value to parents and
teachers would you draw from the fact that feeble inhibition of temper
is a trait transmitted by biological inheritance?

57. Why is an understanding of the principles of biological inheritance
of importance to sociology?

58. In what two ways, according to Keller, are acquired characters
transmitted by tradition?

59. Make a list of the different types of things derived by the person
(a) from his biological inheritance, and (b) from his social
heritage.

60. What traits, temperament, mentality, manner, or character, are
distinctive of members of your family? Which of these have been
inherited, which acquired?

61. What problems in society are due to defects in man's original
nature?

62. What problems are the result of defects in folkways and mores?

63. In what way do racial temperament and tradition determine national
characteristics? To what extent is the religious behavior of the negro
determined (a) by temperament, (b) by imitation of white culture?
How do you explain Scotch economy, Irish participation in politics, the
intellectuality of the Jew, etc.?

FOOTNOTES:

[55] Charles H. Cooley, _Social Organizati