Abstract
During most of the twentieth century in most sociology departments the social problems course has been one of the basics of the discipline. Social problems is a bread and butter course offered to undergraduates who often have no long-range commitment to sociology as a field of professional study. It has never enjoyed academic stature (Mills, 1943). In the 1890s, Harvard professor Francis Peabody taught a social problems course nicknamed by his students Peabo's drainage, drunkenness, and divorce; more recently a critic has labeled the course nuts, sluts, and perverts (Liazos, 1972). The social problems course rarely provides a cumulative knowledge base for the remaining sociology curriculum, yet it continues to be popular.
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