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SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY

Sociology B1: Social Processes and Social Problems: (Not open to
first year students.) A study of the manner in which such social maladjustments
as poverty, crime, vice, and personal disorganization arise out of the natural interaction
of factors and forces in human society. In the first term special attention
is devoted to the manner in which a stable social and moral order was maintained
in rural and village communities before the middle of the nineteenth century.
In the second term the attention shifts to modern towns and cities, and the
problems arising from economic change and immigration. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.) Professor House.

Sociology B2: General Sociology: (Not open to first or second year
students; desirable, but not required, that Sociology B1 precede B2.) 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 personality.
The development of a tentative system of concepts and theories for the
analysis and understanding of concrete social situations and problems from a
scientific point of view, with particular reference to materials drawn from the
students' own experience. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Professor
House.

Sociology B3: Practical Problems in Public Welfare: Sociology B1 or
B2, or equivalent prerequisite.—First term: Poverty and dependency: Second
term: Crime and punishment: Third term: Administration of Public Welfare
Agencies and Institutions. This course includes practical field work in addition
to classroom work. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Associate Professor
Bane.

Education B8: Educational Sociology. Professor Smithey.

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.