
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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Senaste publikationerna
- “Just Throw It Behind You and Just Keep Going”: Emotional Labor when Ethnic Minority Healthcare Staff Encounter Racism in Healthcare. 2022
- Making Independent Decisions Together: Rational Emotions in Legal Adjudication. 2022
- (Dis)passionate law stories: the emotional processes of encoding narratives in court. 2022
- Hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck: en förståelsemodell av ett komplext fenomen. 2022
- Teaching material: racism in healthcare case studies and student questions: in Swedish and English. 2022
- Depressive symptoms in higher education students during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of containment measures. 2022
- The narratives of geographical indications as commons: a study on Catalan and Swedish cases. 2022
- Duration of Mentoring Relationship Predicts Child Well-Being: Evidence from a Danish Community-Based Mentoring Program. 2022
- Alva och Gunnar Myrdal: Policyorienterade samhällsforskare. 2022
- När fansen tar över bevakningen. 2022
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.