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tldr: you probably have a good chance at scoring a decent prof, given that they have teached before, their lectures give a better indication at expectation on exams, papers, etc. You have to assess the feedback on professors in other classes for soc/cmst to see if McMaster has a good record of picking decent profs, especially new ones (or imported from UofT)
Honstly, its not a question thats easy to answer. If you're dedicated, you can do well in anything, but if you're not, you really have to find a professor with a proven track record of having their clear expectations match up with the grading scheme. Quality being related to your doing well is largely a function of their personality, teaching quality, and organization, all of which are random if you don't know who it is.
Given that McMaster is a research institution, and not so much one based on 'teaching' you're more likely to get: a) a professor with a decent academic standing (meaning they know their stuff, or at least they produce results or papers, b) an imported professional to meet the requirements to teach, c) someone who likes teaching, or a mix of the above.
I don't know anything about the range of quality of communication/sociology studies, I would think non-science faculty professors would be better, on average, because a large part of their results (academically, students marks) would be based on quailty teaching and fair assessment, rather than falling behind the protection of student dedication and quality of technical or scientfic teaching literature (textbooks, etc) to do the teaching.
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