Department of Sociology, U of He

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Department of Sociology, U of He

• General Sociology
• Demography and Social Epidemiology
• Social and Cultural Anthropology

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General Sociology Teaching staff

• Prof. Risto Alapuro Citizen Participation and
  Social Movements
• Prof. Tuula Gordon Youth and education
• Prof. Häyrinen-Alestalo Science and technology
• Prof. Riitta Jallinoja Family and marriage
• Prof. Matti Kortteinen Urban sociology
• Prof. Anssi Peräkylä Institutional interaction,
  CA
• Prof. Pekka Sulkunen Regulating Lifestyles
  Addictions
• Lecturer Marika Jalovaara Quantitative methods
• Lecturer Pekka Kosonen Welfare state
• Lectgurer Maaria Linko (Open University)
  Cultural institutions
• Lecturer Arto Noro Social theory
• Lecturer Harriet Strandel Childhood

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General Sociology Research

• About 70 intramural researchers and assistants
• About 50 docents (extramural researchers who
  participate in teaching, supervising etc.)
• Research areas
• see Teaching staff
• health
• sexuality
• youth
• Quantitative methods population registers
• Qualitative methods semiotic sociology, CA,
  HUACC

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Doctoral training

• About 70 full-time ESRs (PhD candidates)
• Past 10 years 84 PhDs (including anthropology)
  11 PhDs per year in 1998-2002
• Five doctoral seminars meeting about 6 hrs per
  year
• Open lectures on timely topics by professors,
  young scholars and visitors
• Lecture courses available from the English
  language Masters Programme
• General lectures on research skills (writing,
  planning, funding, ethical issues etc.)

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In addiction research

• The IMAGES project one project leader one
  post-doc one full term Early Stage Researcher
  one part-time ESR one project secretary/research
  assistant
• Eleven other ESRs with related themes

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Under-graduate (BA, MA) teaching

• About 500 registered students 67 new students
  per year
• Average 34 MAs per year in past five years
• Curriculum
• emphasis on research training
• theory
• metods
• graduate seminar
• Masters Programme in English in collaboration
  with Social pshychology and Social policy from
  2008