Chapter IX · (continued 3)
Reading edition
(15) Myers, Gustavus. The History of Tammany Hall. 2d ed. rev. and enl. New York, 1917.
(16) Roosevelt, Theodore. An Autobiography. New York, 1913.
(17) Platt, Thomas C. Autobiography. Compiled and edited by Louis J. Lang. New York, 1910.
(18) Older, Fremont. My Own Story. San Francisco, 1919.
(19) Orth, Samuel P. The Boss and the Machine. A chronicle of the politicians and party organization. New Haven, 1919.
(20) Riordon, William L. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. A series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County Court House boot-black stand. New York, 1905.
E. Nationalities
(1) Oakesmith, John. Race and Nationality. An inquiry into the origin and growth of patriotism. New York, 1919.
(2) Lillehei, Ingebrigt. "Landsmaal and the Language Movement in Norway," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, XIII (1914), 60-87.
(3) Morris, Lloyd R. The Celtic Dawn. A survey of the renascence in Ireland, 1889-1916. New York, 1917.
(4) Keith, Arthur. Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View. London, 1919.
(5) Barnes, Harry E. "Nationality and Historiography" in the article "History, Its Rise and Development," Encyclopedia Americana, XIV, 234-43.
(6) Fisher, H. A. "French Nationalism," Hibbert Journal, XV (1916-17), 217-29.
(7) Ellis, H. "The Psychology of the English," Edinburgh Review, CCXXIII (April, 1916), 223-43.
(8) Bevan, Edwyn R. Indian Nationalism. An independent estimate. London, 1913.
(9) Le Bon, Gustave. The Psychology of Peoples. London, 1898.
(10) Francke, K. "The Study of National Culture," Atlantic Monthly, XCIX (1907), 409-16.
(11) Auerbach, Bertrand. Les races et nationalités en Autriche-Hongrie. Deuxième édition revisée. Paris, 1917.
(12) Butler, Ralph. The New Eastern Europe. London, 1919.
(13) Kerlin, Robert T. The Voice of the Negro 1919. New York, 1920. [A compilation from the colored press of America for the four months immediately succeeding the Washington riots.]
(14) Boas, F. "Nationalism," Dial, LXVI (March 8, 1919), 232-37.
(15) Buck, Carl D. "Language and the Sentiment of Nationality," The American Political Science Review, X (1916), 44-69.
(16) McLaren, A. D. "National Hate," Hibbert Journal, XV (1916-17), 407-18.
(17) Miller, Herbert A. "The Rising National Individualism," Publications of the American Sociological Society, VIII (1913), 49-65.
(18) Zimmern, Alfred E. Nationality and Government. With other wartime essays. London and New York, 1918.
(19) Small, Albion W. "Bonds of Nationality," American Journal of Sociology, XX (1915-16), 629-83.
(20) Faber, Geoffrey. "The War and Personality in Nations," Fortnightly Review, CIII (1915), 538-46. Also in Living Age, CCLXXXV (1915), 265-72.
TOPICS FOR WRITTEN THEMES
1. The History of Conflict as a Sociological Concept
2. Types of Conflict: War, the Duello, Litigation, Gambling, the Feud, Discussion, etc.
3. Conflict Groups: Gangs, Labor Organizations, Sects, Parties, Nationalities, etc.
4. Mental Conflicts and the Development of Personality
5. Sex Differences in Conflict
6. Subtler Forms of Conflict: Rivalry, Emulation, Jealousy, Aversion, etc.
7. Personal Rivalry in Polite Society
8. Conflict and Social Status
9. The Strike as an Expression of the Wish for Recognition
10. Popular Justice: the History of the Molly Maguires, of the Night Riders, etc.
11. The Sociology of Race Prejudice
12. Race Riots in the North and the South
13. War as an Action Pattern, Biological or Social?
14. War as a Form of Relaxation
15. The Great War Interpreted by Personal Documents
16. Conflict and Social Organization
17. Conflict and Social Progress
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. How do you differentiate between competition and conflict?
2. Is conflict always conscious?
3. How do you explain the emotional interest in conflict?
4. In your opinion, are the sexes in about the same degree interested in conflict?
5. In what way do you understand Simmel to relate conflict to social process?
6. What are the interrelations of war and social contacts?
7. "Without aversion life in a great city would have no thinkable form." Explain.
8. "It is advantageous to hate the opponent with whom one is struggling." Explain.
9. Give illustrations of feuds not mentioned by Simmel.
10. How do you distinguish between feuds and litigation?
11. What examples occur to you of conflicts of impersonal ideals?
12. What are the psychological causes of war?
13. "We may see in war the preliminary process of rejuvenescence." Explain.
14. Has war been essential to the process of social adjustment? Is it still essential?
15. What do you understand by war as a form of relaxation?
16. How do you interpret Professor James's reaction to the Chautauqua?
17. What is the rôle of conflict in recreation?
18. Is it possible to provide psychic equivalents for war?
19. What application of the sociological theory of the relation of ideals to instinct would you make to war?
20. How do you distinguish rivalry from competition and conflict?
21. What bearing have the facts of animal rivalry upon an understanding of rivalry in human society?
22. What are the different devices by which the group achieves and maintains solidarity? How many of these were characteristic of the war-time situation?
23. In what way is group rivalry related to the development of personality?
24. How does rivalry contribute to social organization?
25. What do you understand by Giddings' distinction between cultural conflicts and "logical duels"?
26. Have you reason for thinking that culture conflict will play a lesser rôle in the future than in the past?
27. To what extent was the world-war a culture conflict?
28. Under what circumstances do social contacts make (a) for conflict, and (b) for co-operation?
29. What has been the effect of the extension of communication upon the relations of nations? Elaborate.
30. What do you understand by race prejudice as a "more or less instinctive defense-reaction"?
31. To what extent is race prejudice based upon race competition?
32. Do you believe that it is possible to remove the causes of race prejudice?
33. In what ways does race conflict make for race consciousness?
34. What are the different elements or forces in the interaction of races making for race conflict and race consciousness?
35. Is a heightening of race consciousness of value or of disadvantage to a racial group?
36. How do you explain the present tendency of the Negro to substitute the copying of colored models for the imitation of white models?
37. "In the South, the races seem to be tending in the direction of a bi-racial organization of society, in which the Negro is gradually gaining a limited autonomy." Interpret.
38. "All racial problems are distinctly problems of racial distribution." Explain with reference to relative proportion of Negroes, Chinese, and Japanese in certain sections of the United States.
39. Why have few or no race riots occurred in the South?
40. Under what circumstances have race riots occurred in the North?