Faculty of Humanities | Department of Sociology

Sociology is a social science discipline aimed at understanding and explaining the social world. Its main subjects are social structures, social institutions and social interactions. It examines various social institutions such as family, economy, religion, urban, media, communication and the relationships of these institutions with each other. It analyses various social phenomena such as gender, migration, violence and social stratification at global, national and local levels. It also aims to understand social change through historical and contemporary analyses.

Sociology is a branch of science that provides to comprehensively and deeply understand and explain social structures, social institutions and social interaction. Our graduate programs aim to educate students who can analyse and evaluate social phenomena at global, national and local levels from a sociological perspective and associate with other disciplines such as economics, history, politics and philosophy. In our master's degree program, studies are conducted on various subjects such as migration, violence, health, media, gender, urban, space, body and social change.

The Department of Sociology aims to train sociologists and candidates for academicians who have acquired competence in scientific thinking, adopted the principle of analysing and solving problems and have the qualifications and basic knowledge to contribute to society in their professions. During their education, students have the opportunity for voluntary internship in various private and public institutions, as well as to gain experience in conducting field researches in applied courses.

Graduates of the department can become researchers and academicians, be employed as sociologists in various private and public institutions and organizations, as well as provide beneficial and productive services as social experts, family counsellors, and social pedagogues. In addition, our students, who gain competence to work as social workers and researchers in many different non-governmental organizations, family counselling institutions and research/consulting companies, can also be employed in the departments of public relations and human resources in private and public institutions.