24. What is the difference between group mind and group consciousness as indicated in current usage in the phrases "urban mind," "rural mind," "public mind," "race consciousness," "national consciousness," "class consciousness"? 25. What do you understand by "a group in being"? Compare with the nautical expression "a fleet in being." Is "a fleet in being" a social organism? Has it a "social mind" and "social consciousness" in the sense that we speak of "race consciousness", for example, or "group consciousness"? 26. In what sense is public opinion objective? Analyze a selected case where the opinion of the group as a whole is different from the opinion of its members as individuals. 27. For what reason was the fact of "social control" interpreted in terms of "the collective mind"? 28. Which is the social reality (a) that society is a collection of like-minded persons, or (b) that society is a process and a product of interaction? What is the bearing upon this point of the quotation from Dewey: "Society may fairly be said to exist in transmission"? 29. What three steps were taken in the transformation of sociology from a philosophy of history to a science of society? 30. What value do you perceive in a classification of social problems? 31. Classify the following studies under (a) administrative problems or (b) problems of policy or (c) problems of human nature: a survey to determine the feasibility of health insurance to meet the problem of sickness; an investigation of the police force; a study of attitudes toward war; a survey of the contacts of racial groups; an investigation for the purpose of improving the technique of workers in a social agency; a study of the experiments in self-government among prisoners in penal institutions. 32. Is the description of great cities as "social laboratories" metaphor or fact? 33. What do you understand by the statement: Sociology will become an experimental science as soon as it can state its problems in such a way that the results in one instance show what can be done in another? 34. What would be the effect upon political life if sociology were able to predict with some precision the effects of political action, for example, the effect of prohibition? 35. Would you favor turning over the government to control of experts as soon as sociology became a positive science? Explain. 36. How far may the politician who makes a profession of controlling elections be regarded as a practicing sociologist? 37. What is the distinction between sociology as an art and as a science? 38. Distinguish between research and investigation as the terms are used in the text. 39. What illustrations in American society occur to you of the (a) autocratic and (b) democratic methods of social change? 40. "All social problems turn out finally to be problems of group life." Are there any exceptions?