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Study programme
Whether it is wealth inequalities, migration, sexual diversity or the future of work you’re interested in, our programme will train you to ask fundamental questions, search for answers and understand how people, social movements, institutions and governments address them. Courses will address issues from a great variety of intellectual and methodological traditions. This will open up new and exciting ways to think about the issues you care about.
Assistant professor Margriet van Heesch and student Geesje Remijnse tell you all about the Master's programme of Sociology.
Academic staff
The staff teaching in the Sociology programme is internationally renowned for its research excellence. The programme director is dr. Gerben Moerman.
Careers
After graduating from the Master’s programme in Sociology you will have a broad range of skills that easily translate into a multitude of careers. The programme gives students a good basis to pursue their studies at the PhD level. Students with an excellent academic record will be encouraged to complete their Master's studies with the development of a proposal for PhD study at the University of Amsterdam.
Is Sociology for you?
The Master’s in Sociology is for you if you want to make sense of the social world, if you want to learn to ask better questions, if you want to learn how to do social scientific research or critically analyze our familiar contexts and, ultimately, if you are keen to think about alternative social worlds.