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.
News
Calendar
Publications
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The importance of debunking constructions
2023
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Intimate strangers: Theorizing bodily knowledge in shared housing
2023
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Hantering av samtal om ekonomi, föräldrakonflikter och möjligt våld i nära relation efter underhållsstödsreformen 2016
2023
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The Disarmament Story: On Alva Myrdal’s Study The Game of Disarmament
2023
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Epistemic projects: what are they and what is their value for sociology?
2023
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Challenges in recognizing and facilitating disclosures of intimate partner violence in customer service calls about maintenance support
2023
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Inequality in the hidden abode of production: Class and working conditions in Sweden, 1995–2015
2023
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Barns rätt till ett fungerande hem
2022
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Editorial: Lessons from COVID-19: Building a fairer, healthier, inclusive and sustainable post-pandemic society
2022
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Jane Addams - mikrosociologi
2022
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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.