19. With what programs of Americanization are you familiar? Are they adequate from the standpoint of the sociological interpretation of assimilation?
20. In what way is language both a means and a product of assimilation?
21. What is meant by the phrases "apperception mass," "universes of discourse," and "definitions of the situations"? What is their significance for assimilation?
22. In what way does assimilation involve the mediation of individual differences?
23. Does the segregation of immigrants make for or against assimilation?
24. In what ways do primary and secondary contacts, imitation and suggestion, competition, conflict and accommodation, enter into the process of assimilation?
FOOTNOTES:
[241] Adapted from Sarah E. Simons, "Social Assimilation," in the American Journal of Sociology, VI (1901), 790-801.
[242] Adapted from W. Trotter, "Herd Instinct," in the Sociological Review, I (1908), 231-42.
[243] From W. H. R. Rivers, "The Ethnological Analysis of Culture," in Nature, LXXXVII (1911), 358-60.