Overview

About the program

The Sociology (CW) program is offered by University of Johannesburg.

Students of the UJ Department of Sociology hail from all parts of the continent and the world. Since the coherent UJ Sociology coursework programme responds to the range of research and supervision areas listed above, a synergy exists between the teaching and research interests of staff members of the Department of Sociology. The department’s programme encourages critical thinking and an analytical approach to social and organisational problems – skills that are highly sought after in the labour market.

The specialist research and publication areas of these academic staff members are:

• Social identity, including Class, Race, Gender, Sexual orientation, Age, Religion, and Intersectionality among these,

• Urban Studies, Development, and Migration Studies,
• Clinical Sociology, Group dynamics, Whistleblowing,
• South African Sociology and Higher education,
• Bourdieu’s capitals,
• Research methodology,
• and various of these in combination.