Department of Sociology – University of Copenhagen

Department of Sociology

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Five types of passengers: How we respond to fines on the bus

Campus, DTU. Foto: DTU Compute

Big Brother isn’t always as clever as we think

Campus at UCPH. Foto: UCPH

Educational mobility on the decline in Denmark

Hospital - News Oresund/Johan Wessman

Every fifth Dane wants to put immigrants with Covid-19 back in the hospital queue

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Research literature increasingly dominated by a few 'elite researchers'

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Research unit to put focus on children and education

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New research dispels the myth of nationalism’s fading appeal

Coved-19 testing

Report calls for more attention to gender aspects of COVID-19 epidemic

Young people

New project will support inclusion of people with hearing loss

Cars

Researchers put human mobility into new formula

Elderlearn

Impact since 1479

Sociology was the cornerstone when Andreas Reventlow created the company Elderlearn, which matches elderly Danes with foreigners who are learning Danish. Watch the video from KU's new campaign.

International Fridays

New research centre puts focus on political mobilisation and protest

Three out of four international students have experienced anxiety during the corona crisis

Why do well-integrated people of immigrant origin feel more discriminated?

Neigbour assistance

Volunteer work and community spirit during the coronavirus outbreak

New research project

Sociologists participate in emergency research on the corona epidemic

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News

Bus stop. Photo: Colourbox

Ticket inspection

Five types of passengers: How we respond to fines on the bus

As passengers we respond very differently when caught without a valid ticket on the bus. Using video analysis, sociologists have identified five typical patterns of reaction.

Wind mills. Photo: Colourbox

Green network to strengthen cross-disciplinary research into green transition

A new research network, The Governance of Green Transition, under the Faculty of Social Sciences, will bring researchers across departments and faculties together to strengthen research into the green transition.

People walking against the sun

Five research projects from the Department of Sociology represented at the conference Pandemic Societies

Department Calendar

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1 Aug. - 31 Aug. 2022

Social theory as vocation?

Midterm conference of the European Sociology Association (ESA) research network 29 on social theory as a vocation, with keynote presentations from Richard Swedberg (Cornell University) and Angelika Poferl (Technische Universität Dortmund).

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New publications