he in-group
upon its relations with the out-groups have a bearing upon present
international relations?

14. To what extent is the social control of the immigrant dependent upon
the maintenance of the solidarity of the immigrant group?

15. What are our reactions upon meeting a person? a friend? a stranger?

16. What do you understand Shaler to mean by the statement that "at the
beginning of any acquaintance the fellow-being is evidently dealt with
in the categoric way"?

17. How far is "the sympathetic way of approach" practical in human
relations?

18. What is the difference in the basis of continuity between animal and
human society?

19. What types of social contacts make for historical continuity?

20. What are the differences of social contacts in the movements of
primitive and civilized peoples?

21. To what extent is civilization dependent upon increasing contacts
and intimacy of contacts?

22. Does mobility always mean increasing contacts?

23. Under what conditions does mobility contribute to the increase of
experience?

24. Does the hobo get more experience than the schoolboy?

25. Contrast the advantages and limitations of historical continuity and
of mobility.

26. What do you understand by a primary group?

27. Are primary contacts limited to members of face-to-face groups?

28. What attitudes and relations characterize village life?

29. Interpret sociologically the control by the group of the behavior of
the individual in a rural community.

30. Why has the growth of the city resulted in the substitution of
secondary for primary social contacts?

31. What problems grow out of the breakdown of primary relations? What
problems are solved by the breakdown of primary relations?

32. Do the contacts of city life make for the development of
individuality? personality? social types?

33. In what ways does publicity function as a form of secondary contact
in American life?

34. Why does the European peasant first become a reader of newspapers
after his immigration to the United States?

35. Why does the shift from country to city involve a change (a) from
concrete to abstract relations; (b) from absolute to relative
standards of life; (c) from personal to impersonal relations; and
(d) from sentimental to rational attitudes?

36. How far is social solidarity based upon concrete and sentimental
rather than upon abstract and rational relations?

37. Why does immigration make for chan