Excerpt from An Introductory Sociology Since group life depends on, or really consists in, interaction and contact, it is necessary to study the forms of such action or social processes. These are co-operation and opposition, the latter being divided into competition and con ict. From these develop other processes, such as the division Of labor, the formation of social classes, the settlement of con ict by accommodation, and the merging of persons and groups of divergent cultures into a com mon group with a common culture, the change which we call assimilation. The same interaction looked at from the angle Of the individual determines what is called personality. Personality is that combina tion of ideas, attitudes, and habits which the individual develops as he plays his part within the boundaries Of various groups: fam ily, neighborhood, fraternity, trade union, merchants' association, political party, church body, and so on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."