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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 development of urban communities. Second term: Social processes 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
opinion and political behavior. Third term: The sociology of religion. Given
in alternate years. (Not offered in 1933-34.)
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. (Not offered in 1933-34.)
Professor House and Associate Professor Hoffer.
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 1933-34.)
Associate Professor Hoffer.
Sociology C5: Community Organization: Two B courses in Sociology
prerequisite.—Throughout the year: Informal lectures and discussion, 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. (Not
offered in 1933-34.)
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 and Associate Professor Hoffer.
Sociology C7: The Development of Social Policies: Two B courses in
Sociology prerequisite.—An examination of the major forms and tendencies assumed
by efforts to promote the general welfare and provide for the needs of the
underprivileged and maladjusted classes. The problems involved in the determination
of social policies; and the processes by which such policies evolve. Social
welfare conceived in terms of public and private benevolence, institutional care,
personal guidance, state and national welfare organization, and national and
international economic policy.
Associate Professor Hoffer.
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