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 STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY IN UNITED STATES IOQ

sexes, and the special functions of each ; regulation of industry; slavery; formation of capital ; discoveries and inventions ; domestication of animals and plants ; money, etc. Seventy-two hours.

5. The science of society. An elementary course, with text -book lessons and examination in anthropology and ethnology, with the origin of civilization, and the development of institutions. In connection with this there will be a course of lectures on systematic sociology (societology). Topics are : the organization of society; the individual and the social; social forces; militarism and industrialism; property; family and the status of women ; primitive notions in religion and philosophy; civil government; law and rights; slavery and classes; economic interests and their colli- sions ; conditions of welfare ; origin of moral standards ; reaction of reason on experi- ence. These topics are treated exclusively in the light of historical anthropology and ethnology.

6. The science of society. A course based on Lippert's Kulturgeschichte. Sev- enty-two hours.

DR. NORTON.

6a. Statistical study of the evolution of man. Statistical methods for handling the data of the somatic evolution of man. Special references will be made to the problems under variation, heredity, panmixia, regression, selection, and prepotency, with some passing notice of the practical applications in life insurance. Concrete cases will be studied at every point to illustrate the general principles. The methods of Pierson and Yale, and to a less extent of Galton, will be discussed. Seventy-two

hours.

PROFESSOR FARNAM.

8. Social politics. A critical and historical study of legislation designed to better the conditions of the weaker members of society, considered in its relation to self-help and voluntary activity. Seventy-two hours.

9. The modern organization of labor. These lectures treat of the historical ante- cedents and the development during the nineteenth century of associations of the wage-receivers. They therefore include an account of the structure, aims, and meth- ods of such societies in different countries, together with a discussion of their relations to socialism, the factory system, labor disputes, labor legislation, workingmen's insur- ance, provision for the unemployed, and other features of the industrial world. Forty-six hours.

DR. W. B. BAILEY.

23. Elementary statistics. The sources and reliability of statistical data are dis- cussed and the methods of distinguishing true and false inferences are pointed out. Index numbers are studied, and the lectures treat of the statistics of population, crime, suicide, property, etc. The attempt is made to determine the laws which govern the group-actions of men. Seventy-two hours.

24. American social conditions. A critical study of the principal phenomena which are characteristic of American society. The course will deal with the problems connected with the negro, concentration of population in cities, with the attendant dangers, immigration, poor-relief, labor organizations, liquor question, etc. Seventy- two hours.

25. Labor systems. The various theories concerning the payment of labor, the conflicts between capital and labor, strikes, lock-outs, co-operation, compulsory insurance, and the various plans for the amelioration of the workingman. Each