SOC 15 Sociology
A general introduction to the subject covering the main concepts, theories and ideas and how they relate to study of groups in society.
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50 courses in the 1968–69 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
SOC 100 Introductory Sociology
The sociological approach to social phenomena emphasizing analytical concepts and tools of investigation. 3 lectures.
SOC 202 Sociological Statistics
A first course in sociological statistics; sampling, central tendency, probability, co-variance, as illustrated in specifically sociological data. 3 lectures.
SOC 205 Social Problems
An examination of cultural forces that create social problems and failures in personal and institutional adjustments. Specific attention is paid to the problems of emotional disturbance, addictions, delinquency and crime.
3 lectures.
SOC 210 (Psychology 253*) Introductory Social Psychology
The relation between psychological processes and social interaction. Topics to be considered include (1) how we evaluate others’ personalities, (2) determinants of friendship, (3) formation and change of attitudes, (4) conformity and independence, (5) the self-concept. Prerequisite: Introductory Psychology.
3 lectures. Fall term.
SOC 212 (Psychology 254*) Interpersonal Relations
The contribution of social organization to interpersonal processes. Consideration of some ‘theories’ of social interaction. The social system approach to the problem of personal and interpersonal control.
Prerequisite: Second year standing.
3 lectures. Winter term.
SOC 230 Family and Kinship
An evaluation of the origin and growth of the family as a social institution; its structures and functions in primitive and modern societies; the effect of modern technology on the family; trends and contemporary problems.
3 lectures.
SOC 240 Collective Behaviour
The sociological analysis of the behaviour of crowds, mobs, publics, and related phenomena and their relationships to social organization and social change.
3 lectures.
SOC 241 Social Movements
The sociological analysis of varieties of social movements and their relationships to social organization and social change. 3 lectures.
SOC 250 Crime and Society
An analysis and criticism of the major theories of criminal behaviour. Emphasis is given to the relationship between social structure and criminal behaviour; types of criminal behaviour such as drug addiction; statistics and contem-
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porary research. A sound knowledge of sociological concepts is advisable. 3 lectures, alternate years. Offered 1967-68.
SOC 251 Ethnic and Racial Relations
Relations between different racial and cultural groups; analysis of majority-minority group status. 3 lectures.
252*.. Juvenile Delinquency. A systematic analysis and criticism is presented of biological, psychological, psychoanalytical and sociological theories of juvenile delinquency. Attention is given to statistics and contemporary research with special emphasis on the distribution and types of delinquent subcultures. Students should posses a sound knowledge of basic sociological concepts.
3 lectures, alternate years. Offered 1968-69.
SOC 260 Population
The study of population as an area of sociological investigation; population size, composition, and distribution; population trends and problems. 3 lectures.
SOC 270 Communication
An analysis of the role of language and other symbol systems in social interaction; the interplay between communication and the social system; the formation of attitudes through language; social and individual disorders as caused by, and reflected in, the breakdown in the communication process.
3 lectures.
SOC 300 Human Communities (non-literate, folk and rural)
A comparative analysis of different types of human communities from mainly sociological and anthropological points of view: primary emphasis on types of communities found in non-literate, folk, and pre-industrial rural societies; major theories concerning communities of these types.
Prerequisite: Sociology 100 and Anthropology 102.
3 lectures, alternate years.
SOC 301 Urban Sociology
The comparative study of urbanization as a process; the culture and social organization of cities, urban problems; special attention is given to industrial cities of Western societies.
3 lectures, alternate years.
SOC 311 Social Structure and Character
The relation between social organization and personality is here explored in the context of communal societies, modern bureaucratic organization, a comparison of Latin-American and Anglo-American slavery, and the concentration camp.
Prerequisite: Sociology 210.
3 lectures.
SOC 312 Art and Society
Art is studied as collective representation, as a mode of work with particular career patterns, as evolving leisure and play focus. The affinity of some forms and styles for certain types of social organization; the professionalization and bureaucratization of art in education, publishing, the museum, theatre, and other mass media.
3 lectures.
SOC 315 Social Stratification
Analysis of social classes in society including their basis for development, composition, and consequences for society. 3 lectures, alternate years.
SOC 320 Sociological Research
A systematic treatment of the logic and practice of methods basic to social research. Examination of problems of experimental design, sampling, data gathering, and analysis in the context of case studies of research. Students will be given laboratory experience in several techniques of research.
3 lectures.
SOC 325 Sociological Theory
Major European and American sociologists and “schools” from Comte to the present. Emphasis will be less on history and biography than on the ideas and their application to an understanding of major issues generated in human societies. Limited to third year students majoring in sociology-anthropology, honours sociology-psychology; others admitted by permission of instructor.
3 lectures.
SOC 330 Comparative Social Structure
General theoretical and methodological issues facing comparative sociology; comparative methods at work in the treatment of Western and non-Western societies.
3 lectures.
SOC 331 Social Change
A systematic review and analysis of major theories of social change including some of the classical and modern theories. Analysis will focus upon the sources, patterns, processes and consequences of change. Special topics to be included are: Marxism, social change in developing countries, the role of ideas, and the breakdown and reorganization of social structure.
3 lectures.
SOC 335 Sociology of Science
The study of science as an institution; its historical development and contemporary relationships with other institutions including government, education, and industry.
3 lectures.
SOC 339 Industrial Sociology
Sociological analysis of industry, including relationships between labour and management and industry and society. 3 lectures, alternate years.
SOC 340 Formal Organizations
A survey of theory and research on formal organizations making use of selected contributions from the scientific management and human relations approaches, but with emphasis on the structure and functions of large scale organizations. The nature and types of formal organizations; control techniques and leadership; relations of the organization to its clients and publics; informal aspects of the organization; organizational tensions and pathologies of bureaucratic systems; how the organization adjusts to change.
3 lectures.
SOC 341 Sociology of Occupations
The sociological study of occupations as an aid to understanding the social structure; social and demographic aspects of the labour
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force; the meaning of work; the relation of work and leisure; career and occupational mobility patterns; occupation and status; professionalization; trends in occupations. 3 lectures, alternate years.
SOC 355 Sociology of Religion
The analysis of religion as a social institution; its relationship to culture, personality and social change with consideration given to theories of religious behaviour and contemporary research findings.
3 lectures.
SOC 360 Political Sociology
The sociological analysis of the institutionalization of power, political movements, parties, conflict and its accommodation. 3 lectures.
SOC 365 Social Structure of the Soviet Union
A sociological analysis of contemporary Soviet society focusing on the patterns and functions of its basic institutions including the family, government, education, and industry; consideration of class formation and distribution of power.
3 lectures.
SOC 380 Sociology of Health and Welfare
The structure and processes of health and welfare services are examined as parts of the institutional network of North American society. Professionalization and bureaucratic organization as aids and obstacles toward institutionalized goals. The impact of scientific and technological changes on the structure of health and welfare services and careers.
3 lectures.
SOC 385 Education and Society
The structure and processes of education are examined in relation to those of community and society. Schools as sources, recipients, and modifiers, and professionalization of personnel in relation to the institutionalized goals of education in North American society.
3 lectures.
SOC 450 Seminar: Problems in Contemporary Theory and Research
Examinations of current frames of reference and theories in sociology and related disciplines. Their utility in sociological problem formulation and their test by current methods and techniques.
1-3 hours.
SOC 465 Readings
Selected readings and essay assignments under the direction of a staff member. 3 - 4 hours.
SOC 470 Seminar: Practicum in Theory and Methodology
A preparation for advanced undergraduate students for an independent, sophisticated orientation to graduate study. The practicum provides opportunities for.
(1) developing research designs on the basis of extant theory, and
(2) theorizing on the basis of the reanalysis and reinterpretation of extant data. 1 - 3 hours.
SOC 499 Senior Honours Essay
Required of all honours students in Sociology or Psychology-Sociology in their fourth year.
Graduate Courses
M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology are offered by the Department. These make a preparation for research and teaching in the discipline of Sociology and would be particularly useful for careers in the universities and colleges. They do not substitute for professional degrees in fields like social work, administration, planning and education.
The interest of the Graduate Faculty of the Department is centred on a General Sociology. This approach ties theory to measurement. It uses studies by anthropologists, political scientists, and historians as readily as those by sociologists. It recognizes some of the work of the social psychologists and social philosophers as being strictly sociology. It analyses social systems in a comparative and developmental way, giving attention to social change and to deviance and conformity during change. Social systems studied include family and kinship, religion, science, art, industry and community. Area specialties include North America and Africa.
A candidate for the M.A. is required to take a course in sociological theory, a course in method, a third course in the field of specialization, and to write a thesis. A candidate for the Ph.D. is required to enrol for one year in seminars selected in consultation with the Faculty. He is then required to pass a set of qualifying examinations and to subsequently present a doctoral dissertation. The entrance requirement for either degree is normally the Honours B.A. in Sociology. An applicant who does not already have this may, with approval, do qualifying work. The doctoral programme requires at least two years’ enrolment beyond the M.A., or three years beyond the Honours B.A.
SOC 601 Sociological Theory
A stock-taking of the present fund of conceptual equipment for handling distinctively social phenomena, with proposals for its refinement for purposes of measurement.
SOC 602 Sociological Method
Design of theoretically oriented research; gathering, processing, and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, including field methods, use of documents, laboratory observation, and punched-card techniques. Problems of statistical inference, causality, and measurement.
SOC 610 Theories of Social Change
Systematic review and analysis of major theories of social change, with particular attention to evolutionism, historicism and functionalism. Theoretical problems are then examined within a specific context such as social organization, economic institutions, social stratification, urban structures, etc.
SOC 615 Social Stratification
This course will deal with class, status, and power groups in an industrial society as they strive to maximize their share of wealth, prestige, and power. In order to do so, cross-cultural materials treated as historical examples will be used to develop general principles.
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SOC 620 Comparative Social Structure
The course is devoted to the comparative study of Western vs. non-Western societies with their institutions, structure and change in them. Modern sociological theories which have been developed on the basis of studies of Western societies are to be applied and modified for analysis of non-Western societies.
SOC 625 Socialization and Social Structure
Comparison of childhood socialization in family settings with socialization in formally organized settings, such as Kibbutzim. Analysis of socialization in adolescent and young adulthood focuses on the interplay of the family, educational, and political institutions in occupational placement. North America is compared with England, Russia and Japan.
SOC 630 Sociology of Knowledge
An analysis of the social and cultural determinants of thought and its various forms of expression including ideology, science, and religion. The relationship between thought and social change.
SOC 635 Deviance
A theoretical approach to the problem of deviance/conformity in society. A theoretical discussion of the following concepts will be undertaken: social organization/disorganization, institutionalized norms, anomie, social system, social roles, etc. Some systematic theories of delinquency will be studied.
SOC 640 Work and Leisure
Selected topics in the sociological analysis of industrialization. Emphasis on the structural and processual aspects of industrialization as a change in the whole way of life. Comparison between stages of industrialization in Western and “underdeveloped” societies and the social problems associated with each.
SOC 642 Formal Organizations
A review of the latest research findings dealing with formal organizations, including a consideration of problems of methods and the relevance of both to organization theory.
SOC 645 Community Power Structures
An analysis of the theoretical and selected empirical, sociological studies of community power structures and their practical implications. The sociological material will be supplemented with relevant contributions from the fields of anthropology and political science.
SOC 650 Sociology of Religion
Religion is considered as an activity generated by the social process itself. The significance of its recoil and attempted recovery in secular society is considered, as well as the encounter in the forum of secular society of the different faiths.
SOC 655 Family and Kinship
Family and kinship are viewed as the rudimentary structures of society from which other structures differentiate. They are shown to persist in modern society as a reinforcement structure beneath the specialized institutions.
SOC 660 The Bases of Community
Community is considered as an affinity bond rather than place (Durkheim's “mechanical solidarity”; Toennies’ ‘“Gemcinschaft”). The competitive strengths of the following in generating community are considered: kinship, territory, race, class and faith.
SOC 670 Social Psychology
A seminar dealing with theoretical issues and research findings in the area of social psychology.
699, Thesis.