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73. Public opinion. This course will include (a) an analysis of the concept of the public or general mind, (i>) a study of the mechanism of public opinion, (c) its growth and guidance, (d) the social psychology of fashion, (<?) mob or crowd psychol- ogy, and (/) the function of public opinion in a democracy. For graduate students primarily. Senior College students admitted by permission of the instructor. Major. Associate Professor Vincent.

74. The methodology of the social problem. Based upon Course 78. A defini- tion of the task of sociology, and of its relations to the specific social sciences. Pro- fessor Small.

74A. A synopsis of sociological theory. Designed to furnish a conspectus of general sociology. Minor. Professor Small.

75. The ethics of sociology. Major. Professor Small.

It is recommended that Professor Dewey's courses, the logic, the psychology, and the sociology of ethics, be taken either before or with Course 75.

76. The elements of social dynamics. A study of the permanent forces that shape human society. Courses 71, 72, 73, 26, and 74 are presupposed. Major. Professor Small.

77. The social philosophy of the English people in the Victorian era. Major. Associate Professor Zueblin.

78. The development of sociological method. From Comte to the present time. The object of this course is to discover the successive statements of the sociological problem, with the premises, methods, and results in the most influential writings, as an introduction to the necessary formulation of the sociological problem. Professor Small.

79. The sociological conception of society. For Senior College and graduate students. Major. Professor Small.

80. The sociological conception of the state and of government. (See Course 96.) For Senior College and graduate students. Major. Professor Small.

82, 83, 84. Seminar. Problems of social teleology. Three majors. Professor Small.

85, 86, 87. Seminar. Problems of social dynamics. In this course the facts of social psychology are studied with reference to the possibilities of telic progress. Three majors. Professor Small.

88, 89, 90. Seminar. Problems in methodology and classification. Three majors. Professor Small.

91. American experience with state control of social action. Major.

94. The premises of general sociology. Major. Professor Small.

95. An outline of general sociology. Major. Professor Small.

96. The sociological conception of the problems of modern democracy. Con- tinues, but does not necessarily presuppose Courses 79 and 80. Major, Professor Small.

9&A. Democracy and the social movement in the nineteenth century. Minor. Professor Small.

98. Education as a social function. Major. Associate Professor Vincent.

THE SOCIOLOGY CLUB.

The members of the Sociology Club are the instructors and graduate students in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. By a vote of two-thirds of the mem-