**1. What is the "twofold" function of the triad?
    2a. How can the indirect relation disturb the direct one?
      b. How is the third member perceived?
    3a What are the two "absent" phenomena that characterize the dyad?
      b.       How does this impact the triad?
    4a.       What is made possible by the addition of a third member?
      b.       What is devalued by the addition of a third member?
**5. What difference(s) distinguish strong individuality from decided individuality?
    6. What are the similarities between the dyad and a group?
    7a. How can a marriage between two people with one child be considered a dyad?
      b. What is the impact/role of a second child in a marriage?
    8. With respect to bigamy, why is the addition of a second wife more consequential than the third?
    9a. What does the "dualistic tension" of the dyad produce?
      b.       What results from unity of the dyad?
    10. How does the dyadic relationship change by the addition of a third or more members?
**11a.     How does the subordinate react to the triad?
      b.       How does the superordinate react to the triad?
    12.       What group dynamics result from asking, "With Me or Against Me?"
    13. What is the opposite of radicalism and mass movements?
**14. Within mass movements, what factors contribute to a shift from one extreme to another? 
    15. How does the rate of speed at which interests develop affect the formation of a third party?
    16. What does the appearance of a third party produce or indicate?
    17. What does the Third Element, at a distance produce?
    18a.     In a monogamous marriage, what is the function of the child or children as the third element?
        b.     In what two forms does the child "close" the circle?
**19a. What are the different varieties of mediation by a third party?
        b.     What opportunities does non-partisan mediation produce?
    20a.     What is the "role" of the third element in the mediation?
        b.     What effectively serves the reconciliation of conflicting parties?
        c. What is the function of the mediator?
    21.       What form can all cases of mediation be reduced to?
    22a.     What two "roles" can the third element play in mediation?
        b. Which of the two involves the fewest complications and what characterizes
              the non-partisan position?
    23. What is the difficulty of the position, of the mediator, who is equally concerned with both 
              parties interests?
    24. In what way can the mediator be "crushed" by the conflict?
    25a.     What is the second form of accommodation by an impartial element?
        b.     What "principle" differentiates mediation from arbitration?
**26a. Why is it impossible to separate the mediating and arbitrating elements of the third person?
        b.     What is the sociological "tool" that Simmel refers to and how is it applied/used?
    27. How does the existence of the impartial third element serve the perpetuation of the group?
    28.       What is the double function of the third element?