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 STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY IN UNITED STATES 26$

Lectures, special researches, and prescribed reading. Professor Peabody and Dr. Rand.

2Qb. Psychological seminary. Problems of comparative and social psychology. Professor Munsterberg.

20e. Sociological seminary. Subject for the year : The Christian doctrine of the social order. Professor Peabody.

This course is designed for advanced students who have a special interest in the relations of the Christian religion to problems of social duty.

ECONOMICS.

3. Principles of sociology. Theories of social progress. Assistant Professor Carver.

Course 3 begins with a study of the structure and development of society as outlined in the writings of Comte and Spencer. This is followed by an analysis of the factors and forces which have produced modifications of the social structure and secured a greater degree of adaptation between man and his physical and social sur- roundings. The relations of property, the family, the competitive system, religion, and legal control to social well-being and progress are studied with reference to the problem of social improvement. Spencer's Principles of Sociology, Bagehot's Physics and Politics, Ward's Dynamical Sociology, Giddings's Principles of Sociology, Patten's Theory of Social Forces, and Kidd's Social Evolution are each read in part. Lectures are given at intervals, and students are expected to take part in the discussion of the authors read and the lectures delivered.

9'hf. The labor question in Europe and the United States. Half-course (second half-year). Mr. Willoughby.

Course 9 is chiefly concerned with problems growing out of the relations of labor and capital in the United States and European countries. There is careful study of the methods of industrial remuneration the wages system, profit-sharing, sliding scales, and collective bargaining; of the various forms of co-operation; of labor organizations; of factory legislation and the legal status of laborers and labor organizations ; of state and private efforts for the prevention and adjustment of industrial disputes ; of employer's liability and compulsory compensation acts ; of the insurance of working- men against accidents, sickness, old age, and invalidity; of provident institutions, such as savings banks, friendly societies, and fraternal benefit orders ; of the problem of the unemployed. While the treatment will necessarily be descriptive to a consid- erable extent, the emphasis will be laid on the interpretation of the movements con- sidered with a view to determining their causes and consequences, and the merits, defects, and possibilities of existing reform movements. A systematic course of read- ing will be required, and topics will be assigned for special investigation.

9 2 hf. Problems of industrial organization. Half-course (second half-year). Mr. Willoughby.

This course will give a critical study of modern industry, with special reference to the efficiency of production and the relations existing between employers and employees. The actual organization of industrial enterprises will first be considered. Under this head will be treated such subjects as corporations, the factory system, the concentration and integration of industry, and the trust problem in all its phases. Following this, or in connection with it, will be studied the effect of the modern organization of industry, and changes now taking place, upon efficiency of produc-