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SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY

Sociology B1: Introduction to Sociology: Not open to first-year students.
—First term: The study of the community as a unit of population and as a
constellation of social institutions. Social life in small, simple communities, and
the development of urban communities. Second term: Social processes and the
social personality. Third term: Social change and social control. (B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.) Two sections.

Professor House.

Sociology B2: Social Origins: Not open to first-year students.—An introductory
course in general anthropology. First term: The elements of physical
anthropology—man's place in nature, physical traits of the human animal, physical
marks of race—and the study of types of early civilizations and the origins of
social institutions and social organization. Second term: The comparative and
analytical study of human customs and institutions, with special reference to the
customs of primitive peoples and the relation of institutions to human nature and
to environment. Third term: Culture traits and culture patterns, types of culture,
and the relation of culture to social organization. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Associate Professor Hoffer.

Sociology B3: Social Problems: Not open to first-year students.—First
term: A general survey of major social problems considered in terms of personal-social
maladjustment and disorganization, and their causes. Second term: The
administration and problems of welfare agencies and institutions. Third term:
Population problems. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Associate Professor Hoffer.

Sociology C: To clarify the record concerning C courses in this School
it should be noted that C1 was not offered in 1932-33; C2, C3 and C4 were
given in 1932-33; C1, C6 and C7 will be offered in 1933-34.

Sociology C1: Social Theory: Open only to fourth-year and graduate
students. Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—First term: Sociology as

a science and its relation to other sciences; human nature and personality in their
social aspects; fundamental concepts used in the study of human social behavior
and social organization. Second term: Theories of social process, social control,
collective behavior and social change. Third term: Survey of some of the important
literature of social theory. This course should normally be taken in their
first year by graduate students who have not had an undergraduate course in
theoretic sociology.

Professor House.

Sociology C2: Collective Behavior: Open only to fourth-year and graduate
students. Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—First term: Review
of the fundamentals of social psychology, and general consideration of the theory
of crowd and mob behavior, and mass movements. Second term: Public opinion
and political behavior. Third term: The sociology of religion. Given in alternate
years. (Not offered in 1933-34.)

Professor House.

Sociology C3: Human Ecology: Open only to fourth-year and graduate
students. Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—The scientific study of human
society from a physical, geographic, and economic point of view; the spatial distribution
and movements of population and institutions. Considerable time is
devoted to laboratory exercises, and opportunities are provided for field studies.
Given as a rule in alternate years. (Not offered in 1933-34.)

Professor House and Associate Professor Hoffer.

Sociology C4: The Family: Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—
First term: Review of existing literature dealing in general terms with the
primitive family, the family in history, and the family as an institution. Second
term: Family disorganization—divorce, desertion, marital discord, and the breakdown
of the control of the family over its members. Third term: The modern
family—the family in a changing world, the urban family, tendencies and proposals
for the reconstruction of the family as a social institution. Given in alternate
years. (Not offered in 1933-34.)

Associate Professor Hoffer.

Sociology C5: Community Organization: Two B courses in Sociology
prerequisite.—Throughout the year: Informal lectures and discussions, assigned
readings, and special reports, with considerable laboratory and field study. This
course deals with the relation of the community to its environment, the actual
composition of communities and the spatial distribution of families and institutions
within them; also with typical experiments in community organization, the city
and regional planning movement, and the history and functioning of agencies
designed to guide and enrich community life. Given in alternate years. (Not
offered in 1933-34.)

Associate Professor Hoffer.

Sociology C6: Criminology: Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—
Throughout the year: lectures and discussions, assigned readings, laboratory and
field work. The course deals with crime, juvenile delinquency, and other forms
of conflict between individuals and the society around them. Special attention is

paid to theories of crime and punishment, the causes of crime and delinquency,
and the effects of various types of treatment of offenders. To be given every
second or third year.

Professor House and Associate Professor Hoffer.

Sociology C7: The Development of Social Policies: Two B courses in
Sociology prerequisite.—An examination of the major forms and tendencies assumed
by efforts to promote the general welfare and provide for the needs of the
underprivileged and maladjusted classes. The problems involved in the determination
of social policies; and the processes by which such policies evolve. Social
welfare conceived in terms of public and private benevolence, institutional care,
personal guidance, state and national welfare organization, and national and international
economic policy.

Associate Professor Hoffer.

Sociology D1: The Logic of the Social Sciences: A seminar course for
graduate students only.—Throughout the year: Reports on individual assignments,
discussions, and informal lectures, dealing with such topics as the classification
of the sciences and the relations of the social sciences to each other and to
other disciplines, fundamental methodological problems of the social sciences,
and the conceptual determination of the object matter and research problems of
the social sciences. Regular meetings, probably one two-hour period weekly to
be arranged. Given every second or third year. (Not offered in 1933-34.)

Professor House.

Sociology D3: Research Problems in Public Welfare and Social Adjustment:
Permission of the instructor is required for all enrolments in this course.
—Research projects, arranged and directed in individual conferences with the
instructor. Amount of credit subject to determination in proportion to work
accomplished.

Associate Professor Hoffer.

Sociology D4: Research Problems in Theoretic Sociology: Individual
projects arranged as in D3.

Professor House.

Sociology D5: Research Problems in Human Ecology and Community
Organization: To be arranged as in D3.

Professor House and Associate Professor Hoffer.

The following courses are recommended to students whose major interest
lies in the field of sociology:

Rural Social Economics B1: The Social Economics of Agriculture.

Psychology B4: Social Psychology.

Rural Social Economics C2: Rural Social Problems.

Psychology C4: Theoretical Psychology.