
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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Högre seminariet

Seminariet är den centrala akademiska mötesplatsen. Vid seminariet lägger såväl internationella och nationella gäster fram sin forskning. Högre seminariet omfattar även doktorandpresentationer.
Följ denna länk för mer information och schema för Högre seminariet.
Senaste publikationerna
- Making Independent Decisions Together: Rational Emotions in Legal Adjudication. 2022
- Analytical Sociology and Symbolic Interactionism: Bridging the Intra‑disciplinary Divide. 2021
- The take-off for Private Consultants in Child Protection Investigations: How did Sweden get here?. 2021
- Personlig assistans och föräldraskap: Barnperspektiv i personlig assistans. 2021
- Social Work, Children and the Digital Knowledge Landscape:: New Possibilities and Challenges. 2021
- Human Rights and citizenship-based claims for access to healthcare - evidence from policy makers, NGO, and healthcare workers across Europe. 2021
- The mutability of economic things. 2021
- Couples living with dementia managing conflicting knowledge claims. 2021
- Managing Vulnerability: Everyday Interaction in Sheltered Accommodations. 2021
- The circular economy of food waste: Transforming waste to energy through ‘make-up’ work. 2021
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.