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SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY

Sociology C1: Sociological Theories: Open only to fourth year and
graduate students: Two B courses in sociology prerequisite.—The application
of the general principles of scientific method in the study of social organization
and social processes, social change, and the social aspects of human nature and
personality. (This is not the same course that was given as Sociology C1 in
the session of 1926-27; it is similar in content to the course given as Sociology
B2 in the session of 1926-27; no student who has credit for Sociology B2 from
the session of 1926-27 may receive credit for this course.) Professor House.

Sociology C2: Collective Behavior: Open only to fourth year and graduate
students: Two B courses in sociology prerequisite.—Crowds and mobs,
gangs, sects, secret societies, social movements, political parties and public opinion,
the sociology of religion, the sociological interpretation of group symbols
and group ideals. Given in alternate years with Sociology C3. Not given in
1928-29. 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.
First term: The history of the environmental approach to the study of society.
Second and third terms: Human geography, the nature and evolution of
human economic organization considered as an adaptation to physical environment;
the ecological study of rural and urban communities, of regions, and of
the world community. Professor House.

Sociology C4: Public Welfare Administration and Family Case Work:[2]
Two B courses in sociology prerequisite.—First term: Family case work—the
adjustment of situations arising out of divorce, desertion, widowhood, and the
dependency of families. Second and third terms: Administrative problems of
public welfare agencies and institutions—the poorhouse, the jail, prisons, penal

and reformatory farms, institutions for the dependent, the defective, and the
delinquent; problems of state, county, municipal, and private welfare institutions
and agencies.

Sociology D1: Special Researches in Sociology and Social Adjustment:
Hours to be arranged. Amount of credit subject to determination in proportion
to work accomplished. Professor House and Associate Professor Bane.

Summer Quarter 1927

Sociology sC3-I: History of Sociology. First Term. 1 session-hour.
Professor House.

Sociology sC3-II: History of Sociology. Second Term. 1 session-hour.
Professor House.