Welcome to the Department of Sociology
The Department of Sociology at Uppsala University is the oldest of its kind in Sweden. Its main subjects are Sociology and Social psychology. Undergraduate education is also offered in Sociology with Orientation towards Work, Organization and Human Resource Management, and Social work.
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Publications
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Social construction of places as meaningful objects: a symbolic interactionist approach
2023
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Yet another alcohol policy experiment in Finland
2023
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Social policy or crowding-out?: Tenant protection in comparative long-run perspective
2023
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Epistemic emotions in prosecutorial decision making
2023
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A comparison between the use of two speech-generating devices: A non-speaking student's displayed communicative competence and agency in morning meetings in a compulsory school for children with severe learning disabilities
2023
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Disruptions by COVID-19: experiences of global health interventions in research, education, and humanitarian work
2023
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Contradictions hindering the provision of mental healthcare and psychosocial services to women experiencing homelessness in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: service providers' and programme coordinators' experiences and perspectives
2023
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Self-disclosures in online crisis counselling: Levelling asymmetries while maintaining client-focus
2023
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Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’: Towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on crisis and the normalization of anti- and post‑democratic action
2023
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Work life complexity no longer on the rise: trends among 1930s–1980s birth cohorts in Sweden
2023
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Professorsinstallationsföreläsning med Stina Bergman Blix
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Föreläsning med Zetterbergpristagaren Adel Daoud 2022
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Föreläsning med Zetterbergpristagaren Anders Sundell 2021
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Föreläsning med Zetterbergpristagaren Lisa Lindén 2020
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Lecture with Zetterberg prize winner Joscha Legewie 2019
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Alumniprofil Karin Busch Zetterberg -
Hedersdoktor Richard Swedberg föreläser
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Föreläsning om Professor Segerstedt del 1
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Föreläsning om Professor Segerstedt del 2
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Föreläsning om Professor Segerstedt del 3
About the Department
Without confinement to any specific areas or themes sociologists engage in social science basic research. In doing so methods and theories aimed at the studying, understanding and explaining of social phenomena are developed.
Research and education at the Department of Sociology reflects this span and diversity. Here you will meet teachers and researchers who focus on areas like work, children, economics, gender, disability, self conceptualisations, networking, fashion, organization, urban life, sexuality, technology or aging.
Each semester about five hundred students are engaged in undergraduate studies, either as enrolled in any of the programmes hosted by the department, or in any of the numerous single subject courses, which can also be included, as compulsory or elective courses, in programmes hosted by other departments.
At the department Master studies can be carried out through single subject courses or through the Master programme in Social sciences.
The department staff comprises a total of about fifty researchers, teachers and administrators. Through the graduate programme, each year about five doctoral dissertations are completed.
In june 2022, the department celebrated 75 year with a jubilee. Read more about the jubilee here and see pictures from the event.
Below you can see a short introduction from the Head of Department.