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SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY

Sociology B1: Community and Society: (Not open to first year students.)
An introductory course in the principles of sociology. First term: Biological
and psychological foundations of social life, followed by a study of the
economic and cultural structure of the isolated rural community of fifty years
ago as a type of simple social life. Second term: The rise of towns and cities
and the reaction of this change upon the rural type of social and cultural organization.
Social disorganization in the modern urban community. Third term:
The principles of sociology, with particular attention to the psychological interpretation
of social facts and social problems. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Professor House.

Sociology B3: Problems of Public Welfare and Social Adjustment:
(Not open to first year students: desirable, but not required, that Sociology B1
precede or accompany B2. Poverty and dependency: crime, delinquency, and
penology; feeble-mindedness, insanity, vice, personal demoralization, and their
treatment; administration of welfare agencies and institutions; race relations and
industrial relations. This course includes field trips in addition to class room
lectures and discussions. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Associate Professor
Bane.

Sociology B4: Social Origins:[3] (Not open to first year students.) An
introductory course in anthropology, with special emphasis on cultural origins
and the comparative study of culture traits and institutions. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
3 session-hours.)

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:[3]
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 sB1-I: Social Problems. Both Terms. 1 session-hour. Professor
House.

Sociology sB1-II: The Human Community. First Term. 1 session-hour.
Assistant Professor Reckless.

Sociology sB1-III: The Sociology of Play and Recreation. First
Term. 1 session-hour. Assistant Professor Reckless.

Sociology sB2-I: General Sociology. First Term. 1 session-hour.
Professor House.

Sociology sB2-II: General Sociology. Second Term. 1 session-hour.
Professor House.

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.