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SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY

Sociology C1: Human Ecology: Open only to fourth year and graduate
students: Sociology B1 and B2 or their equivalents prerequisite.—This course is
intended to survey, and to test through the study of concrete situations and problems,
the possibilities and limitations of a scientific study of human society from
a physical point of view—that is, as the manifestation of physiological, geographic,
and economic processes. First term: The historical development of the environmental
approach to the study of human society. Second and third terms: human
geography, the nature and change of human economic organization as an
adaptation to environment, the ecological study of urban and rural communities,
regions, and the world community. Given in alternate years with Sociology C2.
Not given in 1927-28. Professor House.

Sociology C2: Collective Behavior: Open only to fourth year and graduate
students: Sociology B1 and B2 or their equivalents prerequisite.—The
study, from a psychological point of view, first of those types of social phenomena
in which the collective or group character of the behavior is particularly marked,
and, subsequently, of the entire range of common types of group organization and
behavior as they lend themselves to description, classification, and analysis from
the point of view developed in the first study. Crowds and mobs; social contagion;
sects, gangs, and secret societies; denominations and political parties; morals
and public opinion; religion, group symbols and group ritual and ceremonies,
and group ideals. Given in alternate years with Sociology C1. Professor House.

Sociology D1: Special Researches in Sociology: Hours to be arranged.
Professor House.