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Programme structure for students enrolled in 2019 and 2020

Take time to acquaint yourself with which courses and exams your programme consists of and when the electives/optional elements occur. It will be time well spent because that way you'll be able to maintain a continuous overview of your course of study and thus, in good time, be able to start reflecting on your choices later on.

The MSc Cultural Sociology covers a range of thematic areas and introduces the student to variety sociological approaches to the description, understanding and interpretation of different social and cultural phenomena. For instance, we study how social and cultural identities are shaped by political structures and discourses, social systems, geographical and infrastructural conditions and by economic and religious forces. 
 
The overall aim is to provide students with theoretical and methodological tools to understand culture, social relations and meaning production in local and global communities and thus enable them to independently investigate and analyze processes of social and cultural transformations. 
 
Besides classical and contemporary sociological theories and quantitative/statistical and advanced qualitative methods for collecting and analyzing empirical data, we study: How and why cultural identities and relations are changing and shaped by migration and other transnational flows, and how changes in popular culture and social formations are influenced by social media; The relation between gender issues and new body cultural phenomena; We critically analyze how cultural values shape economic practices and how emotions shape politics and social life in general; We work with issues of change in rural life conditions and rural identity and, not least, with subcultures, countercultures and social movements, civil society and new state-citizen relations.
 
The program contains two tracks: “Social transformation processes” (Track A) and “Rural Sociology” (Track B). Students must choose one of the two tracks halfway through the first semester. See the two tracks below.

Social transformation processes (Track A) 

* Supervisors from the Social Transformation Research Group

Rural Sociology (Track B)

* Supervisors from the Rural Sociology Research Group

 

The thematic fields frame the lessons each semester in terms of an integrated package of theoretical courses, methodological courses and exams including The Cultural Sociology Project, emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach that characterizes the MSc Cultural Sociology programme.

Content about the quarters

First and 2nd quarters focus on the relation between the body, body politics, gender and sex from a both historical and contemporary perspective. Through thorough and critical investigation of the changes in understandings of the relationship between biology, culture and body, between interpretations of feminism and masculinity, of race, children and sexuality a deepened understanding of contemporary body culture is achieved. This approach is prominent in The Cultural Sociology Project (CSP) on Track A – a project, in which students in groups make their own research design, collect own data and write a scientific assignment. Besides, the Rural Sociology track (Track B) contains a CSP with focus on rural sociological theories dealing with issues such as rural development, living conditions and sustainability. During 1st quarter, students are also introduced to economic sociology that deals with the economic impacts of sociological phenomena like social capital, emotions and trust.
The 3rd quarter investigates cultural perspectives on time, space and identity. The focus is on relevant issues like cultural appropriation, religion, emotions, radicalisation, racism and human-animal relations as well as the creation of otherness, through social media and social processes of integration and exclusion. 
During the 4th quarter the focus is on subcultures, countercultures and social movements, and the role of cultural organising as both meaning making and resistance. The track courses offered are “Social Transformations in the Scandinavian Welfare State” (Track A) and “Rural and Small Town Studies” (Track B).
In the 5th and 6th quarters electives are offered. Furthermore, during these two quarters students can choose internship or elective courses in Denmark or abroad. 
During the last semester (7th and 8th quarters), the thesis will be written on a cultural sociological issue related to either social transformation processes (Track A), or rural sociology (Track B). 

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You can find information regarding your curriculum and course descriptions in the menu, where you also will be able to find information regarding , information regarding active enrolment requirements and more. 
Supplementary courses/summer school courses offered at campus Esbjerg. 

Programme structure for enrollment in 2021

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Last Updated 28.02.2024