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 STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY IN UNITED STATES 541

OHIO UNIVERSITY. HISTORY, ECONOMICS, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

History is regarded as a record of the social, economic, moral, and political life of the people.

Immigration and its effect upon the country. Professor Higley.

PHILOSOPHY AND PEDAGOGY.

2. Ethics. Sociology or social psychology. This work is intended to supple- ment the individualistic point of view assumed in Ethics I. Professor Doan.

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI.

SOCIOLOGY. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HUBBARD.

la. The dependent and defective classes. The causes of poverty; the English poor-law ; public relief of destitution in American cities ; alms-houses ; homes for the aged; old-age pensions; the care of dependent children; modern organized charity; the blind ; the deaf; the insane; the feeble-minded; the epileptic. Text, Warner's American Charities.

2b. Criminology. Criminal anthropology ; punishment and reformation ; prison systems; Elmira Reformatory ; convict labor; juvenile courts; care of discharged prisoners. Text, Wines's Punishment and Reformation.

3^. Remedial measures. Social settlements ; tenement-house improvement ; rapid transit ; parks and playgrounds ; vacation schools ; substitutes for the saloon ; the immigration problem ; organized labor ; factory legislation ; the eight-hour day ; the negro problem ; treatment of tuberculosis ; the protection of the family ; marriage and divorce ; the church and the social problem ; and other topics.

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY.

Ethics includes, int. a!.: ethics and socialism; ethical doctrine in its bearing on the conception of society, in the several divisions of home government, and religious observance.

There is also a university settlement.

WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY.

ADELBERT COLLEGE. PHILOSOPHY.

PROFESSOR CURTIS.

7. Graduate courses. Sociology in the light of anthropology. The main problems and bearings of anthropology will be discussed in systematic order and their sociologi- cal import noted in such works as those of Morgan, Brinton, Quatrefages, Taylor, Pritchard, Darwin, Wallace, Ranke, and Ratzel. Then a course of lectures will out- line a more systematic treatment of sociology based upon anthropology, after which certain aspects of the works of Comte, Buckle, Spencer, Schaffle, Lilienfeld, Stein, Ward, and Giddings will be discussed.

HISTORY, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WALKER.

17. Statistics. Theory and method. General survey of the field of economic and sociological statistics, with a study of important statistical documents.