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SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY
Sociology B1: Introduction to Sociology: Not open to first-year students.
—First term: The study of the community as a unit of population and as a
constellation of social institutions. Social life in small, simple communities,
and the social personality. Third term: Social change and social control.
(B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.) Two sections.
Professor House.
Sociology B2: Social Origins: Not open to first-year students.—An introductory
course in general anthropology. First term: The elements of
physical anthropology—man's place in nature, physical traits of the human
animal, physical marks of race—and the study of types of early civilizations
and the origins of social institutions and social organization. Second term:
The comparative and analytical study of human customs and institutions,
with special reference to the customs of primitive peoples and the relation of
institutions to human nature and to environment. Third term: Culture traits
and culture patterns, types of culture, and the relation of culture to social
organization. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Hoffer.
Sociology B3: Social Problems: Not open to first-year students.—First
term: A general survey of major social problems considered in terms of
personal-social maladjustment and disorganization, and their causes. Second
term: The administration and problems of welfare agencies and institutions.
Third term: Population problems. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)
Associate Professor Hoffer.
Sociology C1: Social Theory: Open only to fourth-year and graduate
students. Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—First term: Sociology as
a science and its relation to other sciences; human nature and personality in
their social aspects; fundamental concepts used in the study of human social
behavior and social organization. Second term: Theories of social process,
social control, collective behavior and social change. Third term: Survey of
some of the important literature of social theory. This course should normally
be taken in their first year by graduate students who have not had an undergraduate
course in theoretic sociology.
Professor House.
Sociology C2: Collective Behavior: Open only to fourth-year and graduate
students. Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—First term: Review
of the fundamentals of social psychology, and general consideration of the
theory of crowd and mob behavior, and mass movements. Second term:
Public opinion and political behavior. Third term: The sociology of religion.
Given in alternate years. (Not offered in 1931-32.)
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; the spatial
distribution and movements of population and institutions. Considerable time
is devoted to laboratory exercises, and opportunities are provided for field
studies. Given as a rule in alternate years, but may be omitted in 1931-32.
Professor House.
Sociology C4: The Family: Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—
First term: Review of existing literature dealing in general terms with the
primitive family, the family in history, and the family as an institution. Second
term: Family disorganization—divorce, desertion, marital discord, and the
breakdown of the control of the family over its members. Third term: The
modern family—the family in a changing world, the urban family, tendencies
and proposals for the reconstruction of the family as a social institution. Given
in alternate years. (Not offered in 1931-32.)
Associate Professor Hoffer.
Sociology C5: Community Organization: Two B courses in Sociology
prerequisite.—Throughout the year: Informal lectures and discussions, assigned
readings, and special reports, with considerable laboratory and field
study. This course deals with the relation of the community to its environment,
the actual composition of communities and the spatial distribution of
families and institutions within them; also with typical experiments in community
organization, the city and regional planning movement, and the history
and functioning of agencies designed to guide and enrich community
life. Given in alternate years.
Associate Professor Hoffer.
Sociology C6: Criminology: Two B courses in Sociology prerequisite.—
Throughout the year: lectures and discussions, assigned readings, laboratory and
field work. The course deals with crime, juvenile delinquency, and other forms
of conflict between individuals and the society around them. Special attention
is paid to theories of crime and punishment, the causes of crime and delinquency,
and the effects of various types of treatment of offenders. To be given every
second or third year.
Professor House.
Sociology D1: The Logic of the Social Sciences: A seminar course for
graduate students only.—Throughout the year: Reports on individual assignments,
discussions, and informal lectures, dealing with such topics as the
classification of the sciences and the relations of the social sciences to each
other and to other disciplines, fundamental methodological problems of the
social sciences, and the conceptual determination of the object matter and
research problems of the social sciences. Regular meetings, probably one
two-hour period weekly to be arranged. Given every second or third year. (Not
offered in 1931-32.)
Professor House.
Sociology D3: Research Problems in Public Welfare and Social Adjustment:
Permission of the instructor is required for all enrolments in this
course.—Research projects, arranged and directed in individual conferences with
the instructor. Amount of credit subject to determination in proportion to work
accomplished.
Associate Professor Hoffer.
Sociology D4: Research Problems in Theoretic Sociology: Individual
projects arranged as in D3.
Professor House.
Sociology D5: Research Problems in Human Ecology and Community
Organization: To be arranged as in D3.
Professor House and Associate Professor Hoffer.
The following courses are recommended to students whose major interest
lies in the field of sociology:
Rural Social Economics B1: General Rural Social Economics.
Psychology B4: Social Psychology.
Rural Social Economics C2: Rural Social Problems.
Psychology C4: Theoretical Psychology.
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