n of education to social heredity?
16. In what way do you differentiate between the characteristic behavior
of machines and human beings?
17. "Society not only continues to exist _by_ transmission, _by_
communication, but it may fairly be said to exist _in_ transmission,
_in_ communication." Interpret.
18. How does Dewey's definition of society differ from that of Espinas?
Which do you prefer? Why?
19. Is consensus synonymous with co-operation?
20. Under what conditions would Dewey characterize the following social
relations as society: master and slave; employer and employee; parent
and child; teacher and student?
21. In what sense does the communication of an experience to another
person change the experience itself?
22. In what sense are concepts _social_ in contrast with sensations
which are _individual_? Would it be possible to have concepts outside of
group life?
23. How does Park distinguish between behavior and conduct?
24. In what ways is human society in its origin and continuity based on
conduct?
25. To what extent does "the animal nature of man" (Hobhouse) provide a
basis for the social organization of life?
26. What, according to Hobhouse, are the _differentia_ of human morality
from animal behavior?
27. What do you understand by a collective representation?
28. How do you distinguish between the terms society, social community,
and group? Can you name a society that could not be considered as a
community? Can you name a community that is not a society?
29. In what, fundamentally, does the unity of the group consist?
30. What groups are omitted in Le Bon's classification of social groups?
Make a list of all the groups, formal and informal, of which you are a
member. Arrange these groups under the classification given in the
General Introduction (p. 50). Compare this classification with that made
by Le Bon.
31. How do you distinguish between _esprit de corps_, morale, and
collective representation as forms of consensus?
32. Classify under _esprit de corps_, morale, or collective
representation the following aspects of group behavior: rooting at a
football game; army discipline; the flag; college spirit; the so-called
"war psychosis"; the fourteen points of President Wilson; "the English
never know when they are beaten"; slogans; "Paris refrains from
exultation"; crowd enthusiasm; the Golden Rule; "where there's a will
there's a way"; Grant's determination, "I'll fight i
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