ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some aspects of German sociology, especially the work of Ferdinand Toennies and Franz Oppenheimer's Der Staat, Austro-Hungarian nationality problems. It looks at great length about the Jews—about their adaptation as well as their lack of adaptation to the societies in which they lived. Professor Robert E. Park was very concerned about the students at Fisk. He liked them personally, but he regretted not so much their ignorance but their failure to strive seriously for high goals and to be ambitious. Park's attention then turned to geopolitics and to Professor Karl Haushofer, then at the University of Munich and the leader of the geopolitical school in Germany. A young researcher had finished reading a paper on the French Acadians in Louisiana, with numerous tabulations, when Park was asked by the chairman to open the discussion.
