
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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Addressing the needs of Ethiopia's street homeless women of reproductive age in the health and social protection policy: a qualitative study
2023
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A digital right to repair?: How new EU legislation could open up data and software in connected products to enhance their lifespan
2023
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Emotional Community and Estrangement in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Approach
2023
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Alcohol, drugs, tobacco and gambling form a lens for the Nordic welfare states’ biggest challenges
2023
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A scoping review of aided AAC modeling for individuals with developmental disabilities and emergent communication
2023
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Assessing the contribution of migration related policies to equity in access to healthcare in European countries: A multilevel analysis
2023
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Discussing racism in healthcare: A qualitative study of reflections by graduate nursing students
2023
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Something is (still) missing?: Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom
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
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.