SOC 300Canadian Social Institutions
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1980–81
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1973–74 to 1980–81 (before that, 1964–65 to 1970–71 used the number for Urban Sociology and Human Communities (non-literate, folk and rural)); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
General theoretical and methodological issues in the study of social institutions and Canadian substantive examples in comparative perspective. Special attention is paid to such social institutions as the economy, polity, stratification and the family and to institutional interrelations. How are institutions linked? What is exchanged between institutions? What are the origins and character of institutions and how do they undergo change? Extensive readings from the Canadian literature.
As printed in the 1973–74 to 1980–81 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prerequisite: Soc. 101*
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1964–65 to 1980–81, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1973–74 to 1980–81 8 calendars
General theoretical and methodological issues in the study of social institutions and Canadian substantive examples in comparative perspective. Special attention is paid to such social institutions as the economy, polity, stratification and the family and to institutional interrelations. How are institutions linked? What is exchanged between institutions? What are the origins and character of institutions and how do they undergo change? Extensive readings from the Canadian literature.
Prerequisite: Soc. 101*
- 1973–74 PDF p. 581
- 1974–75 PDF p. 648
- 1975–76 PDF p. 450
- 1976–77 PDF p. 393
- 1977–78 PDF p. 434
- 1978–79 PDF p. 421
- 1979–80* PDF p. 434
- 1980–81* PDF p. 262
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
Not in the 1971–72 to 1972–73 calendars.
1966–67 to 1970–71 5 calendars
Another title: Human Communities (non-literate, folk and rural), probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
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.
3 lectures.
Prerequisite: Sociology 100 and Anthropology 102.
Not in the 1965–66 calendar.
1964–65 1 calendar
Another title: Urban Sociology, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
The study of urbanization, the culture and social organization of cities, urban problems. Special attention given to Western societies.
3 lectures.
Department of Sociology