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SOCIOLOGY

Sociology sB1-I: The Human Community: First Term. 8:30; M. H.
24. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Folsom.

Social forces and social problems in the local community, with special reference to the
early rural neighborhood and village, the contemporary rural community, and the evolution
of modern urban communities.

Sociology sB1-II: The City: First Term. 10:30; M. H. 24. Credit, 1
session-hour.

Mr. Hoffer.

The structure, growth, functions, and problems of modern urban communities, and
the influence of urban conditions upon the formation of personality.

Sociology sB1-III: Principles of Sociology: Second Term. 8:30; M.
H. 24. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Folsom.

Courses sB1-I, sB1-II, and sB1-III are intended to serve, jointly, the purposes of a
general introduction to the science of sociology. Course sB1-III completes this introduction
by directing the student's attention to those aspects of the subjects which are not
brought into prominence through the study of communities.

Sociology sB2-II: Man and Culture: First Term. 9:30; M. H. 24.
Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Folsom.

The comparative and analytical study of human customs and institutions, with special
reference to the customs of primitive peoples and the relation of culture to human nature
and environment.

Sociology sB2-III: Modern Culture: Second Term. 9:30. M. H. 24.
Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Folsom.

The study of Lynd's Middletown, a detailed description of a middle western community
of 40,000, with some attention to comparisons with the culture of other, less
civilized communities. The effort is made to study the cultural patterns and social processes
of present-day life in America in the same way in which the anthropologist studies
a primitive community.

Sociology sB3-I: Social Pathology: First Term. 11:30. M. H. 24.
Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Hoffer.

Contemporary social problems and their foundations in personal, family, and community
disorganization. Attention is given to such topics as divorce and desertion, delinquency,
poverty, unemployment, and the social aspects of mental disease and mental
defect.

Sociology sB3-II: Welfare Agencies and their Administration: Second
Term. 11:30. M. H. 24. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Hoffer.

A historical and factual survey of welfare agencies and institutions, with special
reference to the development and present status of welfare conditions and welfare agencies,
including penal and reformatory agencies, in Virginia.

Sociology sB3-IIIA: Problems of Child Welfare: Second Term. 10:30.
M. H. 24.

Mr. Hoffer.

The maladjustments of children, community and institutional measures for child care,
and the movements under way to establish better understanding of the problems and to
promote better care for unfortunate and unadjusted children.

Sociology sC2-I: Collective Behavior: Second Term. 10:30. M. H.
23. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Folsom.

A preliminary study of some psychological and cultural aspects of human social life,
to be followed in later courses by the study of the sociology of religion and of politics
and public opinion.

Sociology sC3-I: Human Ecology: First Term. 10:30; M. H. 23.
Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Folsom.

An introduction to the study of the geographic and spatial aspects of human society.
In this course attention will be paid primarily to general and theoretic considerations.

Sociology sC3-II: Special Studies in Human Ecology: First Term.
9:30; M. H. 23. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Hoffer.

This course will consist chiefly of laboratory and field studies to accompany sC3-I. The
former course may be taken without this one, but not vice versa cept by permission
of the instructor.

Sociology sC3-III: Special Studies in Human Ecology: Second Term.
9:30; M. H. 23. Credit, 1 session-hour.

Mr. Hoffer.

Continuation of sC3-II.