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Adam Mickiewicz University
AMU Institute of
Sociology:
Teaching
and Researching
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Teaching
translates
to...
Degree programs
Specializations
Taught in Polish
Visual sociology
B.A Program in Sociology
Sociology of family and social
problems
M.A Program in Sociology
B.A Program in Social Work
Studies
International
Ph.D Program in Sociology
(full time and part-time, graduate and
postgraduate)
Sociology of contemporary
civilization
Sociology of United Europe
Sociology of local government
Market and public opinion
research
...and
Variety of courses, including:
Courses in English (AMU-PIE)
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Cultural anthropology
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Cities and Social Integration
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Economics
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Public Spaces in Contemporary Cities
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Gender Studies
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Environmental Sociology
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Intercultural communication
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Sociology of Multiculturalism
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Sociology of Contemporary Art
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Risk in Modern World
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Public Relations
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Techniques of filmmaking and montage
Social psychology and its application
to Polish society
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Human Resources
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Xenology. Mapping Otherness in
Contemporary Culture
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Social gerontology
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Sociology of politics
and...
Student exchange programs and scholarships
Other forms of intellectual cooperation
MOST: national student exchange
program offering possibility to
study sociology at one of 17 Polish
universities
Visual Sociology Workshop
ERASMUS: international student
exchange program offering
possibility to study sociology at one
of 13 foreign universities
The Fledgelings Sociological
Disscussion Club
Scholarships include: scientific and
sports scholarships, bursaries and
other forms of financial aid for
students, including special
assistance for young (future)
sociologists with disabilities
Students Sociological Scientific
Group
Introductory Sociological
Workshops for Freshmen
Internet-based student sociological
journal
Researching
 11 independent departments covering
translates
to...
a
wide range of sociological subdisciplines
(national and ethnic relations, sociological
theory and history of sociology, family,
everyday life, visual and material culture,
contemporary civilization, economy and
local government, social problems, social
work, methods and techniques of
sociological research)
 50 members of academic staff including 20
professors of sociology
...main
research
areas
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Sociology of body and medicine
Sociology of senescence and solitude
Theoretical and practical problems of social work
Gender studies
Information society and sociology of technology
Sociology of borders and borderland
Sociology of things and studies of material culture
...
 Visual sociology
 Urban sociology
 Sociology of family and marriage
 Sociology of the everyday
 Sociology of religion and morality
 Sociology of economics and social
structures
 Sociology of culture and analysis of
cultural phenomena
...and
ongoing
research
projects
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The Invisible City: visual database and analysis of bottom-up creative actions of
urban dwellers in 5 largest polish cities www.niewidzialnemiasto.pl
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Re-photographing Poznan: analysis of social collective memory and social
change dynamics through re-photographing chosen public spaces in Poznan
(executed by Visual Sociology Workshop team in cooperation with City Council
as a part of Euro 2012 project)
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Social Inequality and Why It Matters for the Economic and Democratic
Development of Europe and Its Citizens. Post-Communist Central and Eastern
Europe in Comparative Perspective EUREQUAL (international research project in
cooperation with University of Oxford Department of Politics and International
Relations)
 Homelessness and social exclusion
 Studies of disability, social politics and
occupational activation of disabled
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 Studies of identity and barriers in
communication in multicultural context
 Analyses of privatization processes and
modern forms of capitalism
 European Higher Education for the World 2:
studies of international students’ mobility
and brain gain (in cooperation with
University of Zaragoza and Liebniz
University of Hannover)
We
cooperated
with...
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Oxford University, Great Britain
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Leeds University, Great Britain
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Cambridge University, Great Britain
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University of Galway, Ireland
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Lund University, Sweden
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Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences,
Finland
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Mainz University, Germany
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Humboldt University, Germany
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World Bank
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European Parliament
We
lectured
at...
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University of Florida, USA
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New School of Social Research, New York, USA
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University of New England, Armidale NSW, Australia
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Universite de Haute Bretagne, France
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University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
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Naryn State University, Kyrgyzstan
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High Professional School Leeuvarden, Holland
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Stanford University CA, USA
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New Mexico State University, USA
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Trondheim University, Norway
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Guadalajara University, Mexico
We
are...
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Sensitive to the everchanging social context that
we both inhabit and investigate
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Modest when it comes to talking about our
successes (let them speak on our behalf!)
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Avid fans of everything social, no matter how
banal, mundane or unpleasant this social would
be
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Resourceful students, teachers and researchers
asking and finding answers to our questions
where there seems to be nothing left to find
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Tolerant and open to our growing
interdisciplinarity, knowing that it can only mean
to learn more and to understand better
Thank you
Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska:
Hanna Mamzer: