STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY IN UNITED STATES 2? I
MISSOURI VALLBY COLLEGE.
J. W. GALLOWAY. I. Descriptive sociology. III. Social development.
WILLIAN JEWELL COLLEGE. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.
CHARLES LEE SMITH.
Pauperism and chanties. The causes of pauperism and the principles and methods of poor-relief.
NEBRASKA CENTRAL WESLEY AN COLLEGE.
ECONOMICS. Socialism. History and theory of social science. Professor Addicks.
GRAND ISLAND COLLEGE. Sociology. Small and Vincent.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOCIOLOGY.
PROFESSOR Ross.
Seminary on colonies and colonization. Round-table work. Synthetic course treating of the special problems of economics, sociology, finance, and government presented by the over-sea colony. Special attention to the tropical colonization and to the colonial problems of the United States.
24. Seminary on cities. Round-table work. The city as to the laws of its loca- tion, its structure, its economic basis, and the laws of its growth. The population of the city is compared with that of the country in respect to race, sex, and age compo- sition, birth rate, marriage rate, divorce, longevity, pauperism, education, moral char- acter, political traits.
25. Sociology. Lectures and text ; composition and constitution of the social body ; seeks to distinguish the parts, organs, and force of the society ; presents the historical evolution of the leading social institutions. Complementary to the course in psychology of society.
26. The psychology of society. Lectures and readings. The nature and laws of mob-mind, collective hysteria, " craze," fashion, conventionality, custom and tradi- tion, " standard of comfort," " spirit of the age," etc. Different races compared in point of aptitude for social ascendency. These studies in imitation balanced by studies in non-conformism, invention, innovation, leadership, the influence of great men. Illustrations mainly from contemporary American life.
27. Charities. Economic and social aspects of poor-relief. Visits to charitable institutions. Mr. Prevey.
28. Criminology. A study of the criminal class and of the systems and methods of reformation and punishment.
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY.
PROFESSOR HILL.
Social psychology and race psychology. Readings from Baldwin, Tarde, and others.
