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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Framing the "exceptions to the rule" in analyses of responses to the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of European poles involving Sweden and Bulgaria
2024
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Emotional Community and Estrangement in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Approach
2023
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Mot disciplinens kärna!: Från sociologiska paradigm till sociologididaktik
2023
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Class Distinction and Culture Consumption: The Case of Television Preferences in Post-Social Democratic Sweden
2023
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Addiction phobia: Foucault, abstract governance, and the fascination with materiality in contemporary critical studies of addiction
2023
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Narratives of Change: Youth Participation in Vietnamese Development Programs
2023
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Revisiting Popular Theories of Sociology with an Interpretative Take on Computational Methods
2023
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Social construction of places as meaningful objects: a symbolic interactionist approach
2023
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Turning Privilege Into Merit: Elite Schooling, Identity, and the Reproduction of Meritocratic Belief
2023
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Yet another alcohol policy experiment in Finland
2023
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Lecture with Zetterberg Prize winner Emanuel Deutschmann 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.