STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY IN UNITED STATES 545
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON.
ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY.
PROFESSOR YOUNG, MR. WHITTLESEY.
Group V. Society is confronted with great problems that challenge a recon- struction of the social organization and a revision of the fundamental conclusions in all the social sciences. These problems are appropriately made the subject of univer- sity investigation.
1. General introductory course. The theory of evolution in its applications to society ; the process in connection with the new elements in the human sphere ; the genesis of social life, mind, and institutions constitutes the scope of this cours:. Lectures and readings.
The general introductory course gives the student the point of view of modern thought in the economic, political, and social sciences, and outlines the general course of progress in each line of social achievement through the lower stages of civilization.
2. Modern industrial organization. The tendency toward corporate organiza- tions of industry and centralization, with resulting modifications of the conditions of competition.
I. Economic problems. Labor and capital, profit-sharing, corporations, socialism I. Elements of society. Society is an organization analyzed for a determina- tion of its characteristics. Text-book and collateral reading.
1. Principles of sociology and theory of social forces. As conceived of by leading modern sociologists.
2. Anthropology. An introduction to the methods and conclusions of anthro- pology and ethnology in their relations to the social sciences.
3. The social debtor classes. Studies of questions connected with charities penology, and criminology.
4. Democracy. Its characteristics and tendencies.
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Sociology. Introduction and study of some leading problems, such as charities penal institutions, etc. Giddings, Small and Vincent, Spencer, and others.
McMINNVILLE COLLEGE.
" Introduced sociology into courses three years ago. Elective in senior year of college courses, two credits. Use C. R. Henderson's Social Elements as a class guide and outline of the work. Work limited in amount, but of great interest and value Class of five this year. Subject grows in interest and popularity. Teach it in connection with political economy and ethics. Cover the ground covered by Professor Henderson's book."
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE, ECONOMICS.
Course 125. Second semester. Sociology, a study of the general principles of sociology. Giddings, Principles of Sociology.
GRADUATE COURSES FOR THE DEGREES OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND MASTER OF ARTS.
Group I : Tylor, Anthropology; Quatrefages, The Human Species; Le Fevre, Race and Language; Lubbock, Origin of Civilization; Starcke, The Primitive
