Sociology

Sociology

Upcoming event - Young scholars workshop and national conference on - Gender, Environment and Development In The Digital Age

Registration Form - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekG_qkRGY5I8148fqIaI6csa13UV-zKNJwvRa33QyYPwZJiw/viewform?pli=1&authuser=0

 

 

The Department of Sociology is dedicated toward creating competent and socially sensitive graduates through rigorous teaching/training programmes, outreach activities and a nurturing of critical consciousness along with thoughtful understanding of contemporary society. We motivate our students to think intensely about what it means to inhabit the world with others, and how these relations affect ourselves.

VISION THAT INSPIRES US

The Department of Sociology aspires to become a leading center of Sociological learning by promoting critical and matured thinking, inclusive and continuous innovation in education, creativity, and interdisciplinary research excellence in the pursuit of a just and humane society.

MISSIONS THAT ENCOURAGE

  1. Provide a curriculum that will enable students to stand in compete at national and international levels.
  2. Aims at transforming experience, intellectually, culturally, socially and individually.
  3. Intends to create and maintain a vibrant research environment to promote cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research and collaborative work with local, regional and international communities.
  4. Dissemination and advancement and sociological knowledge for upholding values such as equality, democracy, social justice and inclusiveness for the creation of a just and humane society.

 

Career Advising and Planning

A major in sociology provides an ideal background to pursue a range of careers:

  • business careers  (management, marketing and advertising, personnel and human relations);
  • criminal justice careers (law enforcement, courts, corrections; juvenile justice);
  • social service careers (social work; counselling, administration, drug rehabilitation; health administration); family services; disability services);
  • careers in social policy, politics and law (attorney, legal investigator, legal assistant, policy advocate, policy analysis, urban planning, philanthropy; public administration, polling, social research);
  • educational careers (college professor; college administrator; university student services; social science teacher; school administrator.)

 

Placements/internships/industrial visits (January 2023 onwards)

  • UG AND PG Final year students are sent to organizations as interns.