Adam Mickiewicz University  AMU Institute of Sociology: Teaching and Researching Click!

Teaching

translates to... Degree programs Taught in Polish B.A Program in Sociology M.A Program in Sociology B.A Program in Social Work Studies International Ph.D Program in Sociology (full time and part-time, graduate and postgraduate) Specializations Visual sociology Sociology of family and social problems Sociology of contemporary civilization Sociology of United Europe Sociology of local government Market and public opinion research

...and Variety of courses, including:  Cultural anthropology  Economics  Gender Studies  Intercultural communication  Sociology of Contemporary Art  Public Relations  Techniques of filmmaking and montage  Human Resources  Social gerontology  Sociology of politics Courses in English (AMU-PIE)  Cities and Social Integration  Public Spaces in Contemporary Cities  Environmental Sociology  Sociology of Multiculturalism  Risk in Modern World  Social psychology and its application to Polish society  Xenology. Mapping Otherness in Contemporary Culture

and... Student exchange programs and scholarships MOST: national student exchange program offering possibility to study sociology at one of 17 Polish universities ERASMUS: international student exchange program offering possibility to study sociology at one of 13 foreign universities Scholarships include: scientific and sports scholarships, bursaries and other forms of financial aid for students, including special assistance for young (future) sociologists with disabilities Other forms of intellectual cooperation Visual Sociology Workshop Students Sociological Scientific Group The Fledgelings Sociological Disscussion Club Introductory Sociological Workshops for Freshmen Internet-based student sociological journal

Researching

translates to...  11 independent departments covering a wide range of sociological subdisciplines (national and ethnic relations, sociological theory and history of sociology, family, everyday life, visual and material culture, contemporary civilization, economy and local government, social problems, social work, methods and techniques of sociological research)  50 members of academic staff including 20 professors of sociology

...main research areas  Sociology of body and medicine  Sociology of senescence and solitude  Theoretical and practical problems of social work  Gender studies  Information society and sociology of technology  Sociology of borders and borderland  Sociology of things and studies of material culture

...  Visual sociology  Urban sociology  Sociology of family and marriage  Sociology of the everyday  Sociology of religion and morality  Sociology of economics and social structures  Sociology of culture and analysis of cultural phenomena

...and ongoing research projects  The Invisible City: visual database and analysis of bottom-up creative actions of urban dwellers in 5 largest polish cities  Re-photographing Poznan: analysis of social collective memory and social change dynamics through re-photographing chosen public spaces in Poznan (executed by Visual Sociology Workshop team in cooperation with City Council as a part of Euro 2012 project)  Social Inequality and Why It Matters for the Economic and Democratic Development of Europe and Its Citizens. Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective EUREQUAL (international research project in cooperation with University of Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations)

...  Homelessness and social exclusion  Studies of disability, social politics and occupational activation of disabled  Studies of identity and barriers in communication in multicultural context  Analyses of privatization processes and modern forms of capitalism  European Higher Education for the World 2: studies of international students’ mobility and brain gain (in cooperation with University of Zaragoza and Liebniz University of Hannover)

We cooperated with...  Oxford University, Great Britain  Leeds University, Great Britain  Cambridge University, Great Britain  University of Galway, Ireland  Lund University, Sweden  Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences, Finland  Mainz University, Germany  Humboldt University, Germany  World Bank  European Parliament

We lectured at...  University of Florida, USA  New School of Social Research, New York, USA  University of New England, Armidale NSW, Australia  Universite de Haute Bretagne, France  University of Illinois at Chicago, USA  Central European University, Budapest, Hungary  Naryn State University, Kyrgyzstan  High Professional School Leeuvarden, Holland  Stanford University CA, USA  New Mexico State University, USA  Newcastle upon Tyne, UK  Trondheim University, Norway  Guadalajara University, Mexico

We are...  Sensitive to the everchanging social context that we both inhabit and investigate  Modest when it comes to talking about our successes (let them speak on our behalf!)  Avid fans of everything social, no matter how banal, mundane or unpleasant this social would be  Resourceful students, teachers and researchers asking and finding answers to our questions where there seems to be nothing left to find  Tolerant and open to our growing interdisciplinarity, knowing that it can only mean to learn more and to understand better

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