Department of Sociology Books
This is one of the recent books published by a member of staff in the Department of Sociology. A full list of publications is available on our Books page
ICS Journal
The Department is home to the Information Communication & Society Journal
Welcome to the Department of Sociology at the University of York
We are a small, collegiate and dynamic group of lecturing, research and administrative staff.
We were ranked joint first for our research work in the RAE 2008 based upon this submission.
Although a research intensive Department we also take our teaching very seriously indeed. In the 2009 National Student Survey (NSS) the quality of our teaching was ranked 4th overall in the UK and 90% of our students said that they were satisfied with our courses.
We offer places to about 130 new undergraduate students each year on our exciting portfolio of BA (Hons) degrees all with A- Level offer grades of BBB and above. We also have an entry of about 30 new postgraduate students to our innovative MA/MSc and MPhil/PhD programmes each year.
We offer teaching and research in most areas of contemporary sociology. However, we have particular strengths in: Conversation Analysis; Crime; Culture; Gender and Sexualities; Medical Sociology; New Media; Research Methodology; Science and Technology Studies; Social Psychology; Social Theory; and Urban Studies.
On these web pages you can find out detailed information about the Department, about its degrees, about admissions policy and procedures, and about its staff and their research interests.
We are an open and friendly Department keen to attract students from the UK and overseas as well as to work with colleagues nationally and internationally on collaborative research.
BSA Regional Postgraduate Day School
Subcultures Past and Present: Space, Technologies and Social Control
The Department of Sociology, University of York, will be hosting a 1-day conference around the theme of culture and subculture. Organised for postgraduates by postgraduates at the universities of York, Sheffield and Leeds, the conference will examine classical sociological analyses of subculture and the transformations in the meaning of subculture brought about by the local/global shift, the advent of transformative technologies and the implications both of these have for our understanding of (sub) culture in place and space.
The Plight of the Uncool Sociologist
Dr Dave Beer has given an interview to The Chronicle of Higher Education in the U.S.A on the problems of being an 'uncool sociologist'.