borate your position.
26. To what extent does human nature differ with race and geographic
environment?
27. How would you reinterpret Aristotle's and Hobbes's conception of
human nature in the light of this definition?
28. What illustrations of the difference between folkways and mores
would you suggest?
29. Classify the following forms of behavior under (a) folkways or
(b) mores: tipping the hat, saluting an officer, monogamy, attending
church, Sabbath observance, prohibition, immersion as a form of baptism,
the afternoon tea of the Englishman, the double standard of morals, the
Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, the Constitution of the United
States.
30. What do you understand to be the relation of the mores to human
nature?
31. In what way is (a) habit related to will? (b) custom related to
the general will?
32. How do you distinguish the general will (a) from law, (b) from
custom?
33. Does any one of the following terms embody your conception of what
is expressed by _Sittlichkeit_: good form, decency, self-respect,
propriety, good breeding, convention?
34. Describe and analyze several concrete social situations where
_Sittlichkeit_ rather than conscience or law controlled the behavior of
the person or of the group.
35. What do you understand by convention? What is the relation of
convention to instinct? Is convention a part of human nature to the same
extent as loyalty, honor, etc.?
36. What is meant by the saying that mores, ritual, and convention are
in the words of Hegel "objective mind"?
37. "The organism, and the brain as its highest representative,
constitute the real personality." What characteristics of personality
are stressed in this definition?
38. Is there any significance to the fact that personality is derived
from the Latin word _persona_ (mask worn by actors)?
39. Is the conventional self a product of habit, or of _Sittlichkeit_,
or of law, or of conscience?
40. What is the importance of other people to the development of
self-consciousness?
41. Under what conditions does self-consciousness arise?
42. What do you understand by personality as a complex? As a total of
mental complexes?
43. What is the relation of memory to personality as illustrated in the
case of dual personality and of moods?
44. What do you understand Cooley to mean by the looking-glass self?
45. What illustration would you suggest to indicate that an individual's
sense of his persona
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