Internet Exercises

Go to http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Simmel/SIMMELW3.HTML and read the article on Simmel’s "social types." Then answer the following questions:

1. Where does a social type come from?
2. In your own words, describe the complex character of the stranger.
3. Simmel provides a counter-intuitive description of the poor. For Simmel, what does it mean to be poor?
4. When are the poor no longer poor?

Go to http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Cooley/COOLW3.HTML and read the article on the "primary group." Then answer the following questions:

1. Is the primary group based on feelings of love and harmony alone? If not, why?
2. According to the article, what is the difference between the work that the mother does at home and the work she does outside of the home? Is this difference true of the contemporary mother?
3. How is the idea of the looking-glass self intertwined with the primary group?
4. According to this article, what did Parsons mean when he said that "Cooley was the theorist of society as part of the individual self."