Studies at the Department of Sociology

Sociology is the science about human social behaviour and relations between people and societies. Frequent sociological issues deal with processes and patterns of the interaction of groups and individuals, forms of organization of social groups, relations between groups, influence of groups on the behaviour of individuals and differencies among people in terms of power resources and life chances.

Demography studies human populations, their size, composition, distribution and population changes. Read more at SUDA.

First level

First level studies include courses and programmes leading to a Bachelor´s degree. With a few exceptions they are taught in Swedish

Second level

This is the advanced level leading to a Master´s degree – one-year Master or two-year Master. Here you find two programmes in Demography and two in Sociology and a number of single subject courses in Sociology and in Demography.

Third level

This level consists of doctoral studies in Sociology and in Sociological Demography.

All applications through antagning.se/universityadmissions.se

Applying for courses and programmes at first or second level, the national web-site antagning.se/universityadmissions.se is to be used. Exchange students shall contact the departmental coordinator for choice of courses.