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TOPICS FOR WRITTEN THEMES
1. Society and the Individual: The Cardinal Problem of Sociology.
2. Historic Conceptions of Society: Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, etc.
3. Plant Communities.
4. Animal Societies: The Ant Colony, the Bee Hive.
5. Animal Communities, or Studies in Animal Ecology.
6. Human Communities, Human Ecology, and Economics.
7. The Natural Areas of the City.
8. Studies in Group Consciousness: National, Sectional, State, Civic.
9. Co-operation versus Consensus.
10. Taming as a Form of Social Control.
11. Domestication among Plants, Animals, and Man.
12. Group Unity and the Different Forms of Consensus: _Esprit de corps_,
Morale, Collective Representations.
13. The Social Nature of Concepts.
14. Conduct and Behavior.
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What, in your opinion, are the essential elements in Espinas'
definition of society?
2. In what sense does society differ from association?
3. According to Espinas' definition, which of the following social
relations would constitute society: robber and robbed; beggar and
almsgiver; charity organization and recipients of relief; master and
slave; employer and employee?
4. What illustrations of symbiosis in human society occur to you?
5. Are changes resulting from human symbiosis changes (a) of
structure, or (b) of function?
6. What are the likenesses and the differences between social symbiosis
in human and in ant society?
7. What is the difference between taming and domestication?
8. What is the relation of domestication to society?
9. Is man a _tamed_ or a _domesticated_ animal?
10. What are the likenesses between a plant and a human community? What
are the differences?
11. What is the fundamental difference between a plant community and an
ant society?
12. What are the differences between human and animal societies?
13. Does the ant have customs? ceremonies?
14. Do you think that there is anything akin to public sentiment in ant
society?
15. What is the relatio
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