WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

Our department is situated on the 4th Floor of the Robert Leslie Social Sciences Building, Southside of Upper Campus

 

 

About us

 

New and exciting!...

The first issue of our Sociology Newsletter is now available. 

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Our Work

In our teaching and research, the Department attempts to explicate the challenges we are facing in South Africa and on the African continent in a globalising world.

Our Research

Research interests include: race, class & identity, globalisation, migration, inequality, land & agrarian questions, social theory, development, urban sociology, labour studies, sociology of the family, social movements, & political violence.

 

SOCIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES 

The Department invites you to subscribe to our mailing list by emailing soc-sociology@uct.ac.za so that you may receive information on and invitations to all of our seminars.

NEXT SEMINAR:

May 2025 - exact date TBC