Reserch at Department of Sociology
Our research mainly takes a theoretical approach to empirical investigation, with our results having clear social application. Researchers at the department have a long tradition of bridging the divide between theoretical and empirical approaches.
Our research covers key social phenomena such as inequality, social justice, stratification, social order, structure, power, culture, identity, subjectivity, emotion, interaction, sustainability, addressing questions of ontology and epistemology.
We cover a wide range of sociologies, including:
- Work, organisation, health, education, welfare, ageing, migration, social movements, environment, food, waste, housing and urban settings, the state, law, networks, social psychology, class, gender, ethnicity, racism, violence, theory, elites, trust, intimacy;
- With connections to social policy, computational social science as well as historical, economic and political sociology.
Research is undertaken as part of one of the research groups at the Department or in the form of research projects.
Research Groups
Waste values
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Doctoral programme in Sociology
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