Sociologie

specialisatie

specialisatie Digitalisation in Work and Society

If you're interested in how digital technologies might reshape how we work, organise, and govern, this new, multidisciplinary master programme is the right fit for you.

The programme:

• Provides multiple perspectives and tools to study digital technologies in the changing world of work.
• Offers professional skill development to work in organisational contexts pervaded with technological innovations.
• Has dedicated professors from the fields of psychology, sociology, and public administration teaching classes together to offer different viewpoints.
• Organises field trips to organisations to get an understanding of current developments in the field.

specialisatie Engaging Public Issues

Most of today's major issues, such as climate change, racism or automated technologies, are not limited to traditional parliamentary politics, but play out in the public sphere of (online) media, social movements, expertise, activism and policy making. This master programme enables you to understand how such concerns become public issues. It provides you with
the tools to navigate and broker complex issues, to develop your own engagement with them and to intervene in them.

specialisatie Governance of Migration and Diversity – Sociology

Erasmus University Rotterdam offers two tracks within the GMD master: Sociology and Public Administration. The specialisation of Sociology
offers a sociological analysis of the drivers of migration and the integration of immigrants in receiving countries. Governance of Migration and Diversity is a collaboration between Erasmus University Rotterdam (including the
Institute for Social Studies in The Hague), Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. The cooperation between these universities
provides a unique combination of varied expertise within one single master programme.

specialisatie Politics and Society

The relationship between politics and society has changed dramatically. The causes and consequences of today's pressing political issues like Brexit,
populism and political distrust, can be understood by the unique focus on the interrelationship between politics and society offered in Rotterdam.

specialisatie Social Inequalities

Do you want to know why social divisions in society are increasing? This programme trains you to become an expert in the field of social inequality. It brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the causes and consequences of social inequality, and sheds light on ways in which social policies can reduce it. The theoretical pluralism of the programme provides you with essential critical, analytical and methodological skills.

specialisatie Research Master Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts

This two-year master programme is specially designed for academically
talented and driven students, who have a keen interest in research in sociology, media studies, and arts and culture studies. During the programme students combine social-scientific training and hands-on
experience, develop their own research interests and prepare themselves for a PhD, or a career in research, policy, or consultancy.