15. Assimilation and Accommodation in Their Relations to the Educational Process.
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
1. What do you understand Simons to mean by the term "assimilation"?
2. What is the difference between amalgamation and assimilation?
3. How are assimilation and amalgamation interrelated?
4. What do you consider to be the difference between Trotter's explanation of human evolution and that of Crile?
5. What do you understand Trotter to mean by the gregarious instinct as a mechanism controlling conduct?
6. Of what significance is the distinction made by Trotter between (a) the three individual instincts, and (b) the gregarious instincts?
7. What is the significance of material and non-material cultural elements for the study of race contact and intermixture?
8. How do you explain the difference in rapidity of assimilation of the various types of cultural elements?