Department of Sociology

• Industrial Relations
• Society and Communication (Visual Culture)
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Historical Sociology
• Gender, Inequalities, Power
• The Sociology of Religion by Emile Durkheim

• Basic Principles and Methods of social research
• Epistemology of the Social Sciences
• Culture and social inequality: theoretical and methodological approaches
• Researching Social Change
• Society and Bioethics
• Qualitative Research Design and Data Analysis
• Thesis Proposal Preparation Seminar

• Political Parties and Civil Society in Greece
• Social Theory and Historicity
• Rural Sociology
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Collective Action and Social Movements
• Biopolitical bodies and subjects
• Theories of Justice (common course with PPS Department of Political Science)

Compulsory Courses of all Specializations

• Basic Principles and Methods of Social Research
• Thesis Proposal Preparation Seminar

Specialization A’: Theory, Ideology and Politics in Social Science

• Epistemology of Social Sciences

Specialization B’: Culture, Power and Social Inequalities

• Culture and social inequality: theoretical and methodological approaches
• Inequalities and otherness: Prejudice, xenophobia, racism

Specialization C’: Social, Political, Economic Transformations

• Researching Social Change
• Industrial Relations

Specialization A’: Empirical Social Research Methodology

• Comparative Research Methods and Techniques

Specialization B’: Theory, Ideology and Politics in Social Science

• Historical Sociology
• Social Theory and Social Theory and Modernity

Specialization C’: Culture, Power and Social Inequalities

• Gender, Inequalities, Power

Specialization D’: Social, Political, Economic Transformations

• Rural Sociology

Specialization A’: Empirical Social Research Methodology

• Introduction to Social Research Methodology

Specialization B’: Theory, Ideology and Politics in Social Science

• Epistemology of Social Science

Specialization C’: Culture, Power and Social Inequalities

• Culture and Inequality: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

Specialization D’: Social, Political, Economic Transformations

•  Researching Social Transformation

Third Semester Compulsory Course

• Thesis Proposal Preparation Seminar

Optional Course (for previous years)

•  Urban inequalities and cultures

The Postgraduate program uses the Moodle platform to support teaching.
You can log in, if you are eligible, by clicking on the following link:

• https://elearn.uoc.gr/course/index.php?categoryid=26&lang=en

Compulsory Courses

• Contemporary Issues in Sociology I
• Contemporary Issues in Sociology II
• Research Methods in Sociology I: Quantitative Methods
• Research Methods in Sociology II: Qualitative Methods
• Thesis Proposal Preparation Seminar

Optional Courses

1) Specialization “Social Organization and Social Change”

• Sociological theories of economic life
• Collective action and social movements
• Sociology of work
• Special Issues in Social Change: Society and Bioethics
• Surveillance Society
• Special Topics in Social Change: the foreign in the city – dialogues of sociology with psychoanalysis
• Special Topics in Social Organization: Sociology and the Law of Human Reproduction – Bioethics
• Special Topics in Social Change: The evolution of work and employment
• Survival Strategies in the Rural Area: Crises and Responses
• Poverty, exclusion and solidarity in the cities of southern Europe
• Transformation and development of the rural

2) Specialization “Culture: Social Practices and Conflicts”

• Ideology, Religion and Authority in Late Modernity
• Sociology of the Media
• Social control systems: biopower and biopolitics
• Special Topics in Culture: Contemporary Historical Sociology
• Special Topics in Culture: parties and civil society in Greece
• Special Topics in the Sociology of Culture: The West and Others
• Cultural heterotopias and youth identities in leisure: sports and music
• European Politics and Gender
• Special Topics in the Sociology of Culture: Social Consequences of the Body, Health and Disease
• Special topics in Culture: Theory and ideology in the interpretation of the Greek national past (Enlightenment, history, Marxism)
• Public speaking analysis: Stereotypes, prejudice and hate speech

3) Courses Common for all Specializations

• Qualitative Data Analysis
• The Stranger in the City: Dialogues of Sociology with Psychoanalysis
• Critical Theory
• Globalization, local transformation and social economy in times of crisis
• Social movements and public sociality in Greece 1900-1940

The Postgraduate program uses the Moodle platform to support teaching.
You can log in, if you are eligible, by clicking on the following link:

• https://elearn.uoc.gr/course/index.php?categoryid=26&lang=en