Week 12 Questions
Please read Pgs. 232-260 in the textbook (Theories of a Social Order: A Reader. Michael Hechter, Christina Horne)
1.) Do you agree that egoistic suicide as stated in the reading comes from excessive individualism? Explain your answer
4.) Do you agree or disagree to pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness? Explain your answer
5.) Do you agree or disagree that society is the only moral power superior to the individual the authority of which he accepts? Explain your answer
6.) Do you agree or disagree that if everyone began life with equal resources and if the competitive struggle were fought out on a basis of perfect equality no one could think its results unjust? Explain your answer
7.) Do you agree or disagree when society is disturbed by some painful crisis there is a rise in suicide. Explain your answer
10.) Do you agree or disagree that only with difficulty one draws a man out of himself to interest him in the destiny of the whole state. Explain your answer
11.) Do you agree or disagree that if men did not acquire the practice of associating with each other in ordinary life civilization itself would be in peril? Explain your answer
