Warsaw, Poland

Sociology

Socjologia

Bachelor's

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⇑Sociology at Civitas

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: social

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: www.civitas.edu.pl/en/

⇑Why study Sociology at Civitas University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie Civitas

Why study it:

Programme: theory, research and the digital age
Specialisation: 21st century societies
Placements: internships and the degree
After graduation: where you can work

Civitas University in Warsaw teaches Sociology as a three-year, full-time bachelor's programme in English. It is for school-leavers who ask why people behave as they do: who watches reality shows, where leaders come from and what gender means as a social category.

Programme: theory, research and the digital age

The core curriculum covers:

classical and modern sociological theories, together with microsociology and the sociology of emotions
research methods: qualitative and quantitative studies, statistics for social research and data analysis in Atlas.ti and R
culture and society, social psychology, and the link between economy, politics and social inequalities in contemporary capitalism
society and the digital revolution, society and climate change, and online ethnography with its ethics
the challenges of modern societies in Poland, Europe and the world, set against world social history of the 20th and 21st centuries
workshops on critical reflection, effective communication and applying sociological imagination in practice

Specialisation: 21st century societies

The specialisation is called Sociology: 21st Century Societies. It leaves room for general development courses of your own choice, while workshops and specialist courses teach you to design studies, analyse data and tackle digitalisation, environmental change, social inequality and communication in multicultural teams.

Placements: internships and the degree

Internships and a foreign language are part of the plan, alongside physical education and elective courses. You finish with the degree of Licencjat in Sociology and receive a Diploma Supplement translated into English. Classes take place in an international community, where students and lecturers bring their global experience into the lecture room.

After graduation: where you can work

Graduates are prepared for roles in:

research and analytical centres and think tanks, preparing social analyses and policy recommendations
marketing and public relations agencies, where sociology informs branding strategies and campaign narratives
media and communication departments, creating messages and content
opinion-polling and market research firms, designing surveys that explain consumer behaviour
HR departments and recruitment agencies, supporting team building and workplace communication
public administration, local government, NGOs and social services

Based on the programme pages at civitas.edu.pl.

⇑Test: check whether Sociology is the right major for you!

⇑Definitions and quotes

Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture. It is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about social order, acceptance, and change or social evolution. Many sociologists aim to conduct research that may be applied directly to social policy and welfare, while others focus primarily on refining the theoretical understanding of social processes. Subject matter ranges from the micro-sociology level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and the social structure.

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Sociology

Good sociology is sociological work that produces meaningful descriptions of organizations and events, valid explanations of how they come about and persist, and realistic proposals for their improvement or removal.

Howard S. Becker (1972) "'Radical politics and sociological research"

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Sociology

The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our lives how impossible that is. How, then, can there be a "social science"? The answer, surely, is to be less ambitious and stop trying to make sociology into a natural science although it is, indeed, the study of natural objects. There are some things in the world that we will never know and many that we will never know exactly. Each domain of phenomena has its characteristic grain of knowability. Biology is not physics, because organisms are such complex physical objects, and sociology is not biology because human societies are made by self-conscious organisms. By pretending to a kind of knowledge that it cannot achieve, social science can only engender the scorn of natural scientists and the cynicism of the humanists.

Richard Lewontin Sex, Lies, and Social Science (1995)

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Sociology

Comte gave a powerful impetus to the development of sociology, an impetus which bore fruit in the later decades of the nineteenth century. To say this is certainly not to claim that French sociologists such as Durkheim were devoted disciples of the high priest of positivism. But by insisting on the irreducibility of each of his basic sciences to the particular science of sciences which it presupposed in the hierarchy and by emphasizing the nature of sociology as the scientific study of social phenomena Comte put sociology on the map. To be sure, [its] beginnings can be traced back well beyond Montesquieu, for example, and to Condorcet, not to speak of Saint-Simon, Comte's immediate predecessor. But Comte's clear recognition of sociology as a particular science, with a character of its own, justified Durkheim in regarding him as the father or founder of this science, in spite of the fact that Durkheim did not accept the idea of the three states and criticized Comte's approach to sociology.

Frederick Copleston A History of Philosophy: IX Modern Philosophy (1994). Image Books, New York. p. 140. ISBN 0385129106.

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