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 change from sentimental to rational attitudes toward life?
38. In what way is capitalism associated with the growth of secondary contacts?
39. How does "the stranger" include externality and intimacy?
40. In what ways would you illustrate the relation described by Simmel that combines "the near" and "the far"?
41. Why is it that "the stranger" is associated with revolutions and destructive forces in the group?
42. Why does "the stranger" have prestige?
43. In what sense is the attitude of the academic man that of "the stranger" as compared with the attitude of the practical man?