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Department of Sociology


Welcome to our department. We are pleased to have you visiting our website and to share some information about our department with you. The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) Department of Sociology is one of the country’s first sociology programs since sociology as a discipline was resumed. In the December 1980, Sociology Research Workshop of HUST was established. Three years later, Sociology Institute was founded and was held by Professor Wang Kang, a well-known sociologist in China. Established in October 1985, the Department of Sociology began with a Master Program in 1986 and enrolled undergraduates in 1988. In the September 1996, HUST Social Survey Research Center was founded. Since September 2000, the department began to provide Bachelor’s Degree on Social Work and Master Degree on Social Security one year later. Hereafter, Social Security Institute, Population Institute and HUST China Rural Governance Research Center were established respectively in 2002 and 2004. In 2006, the Department of Sociology was entitled to offer PhD in Sociology and PhD in Social Security Programs and was accredited as the first class discipline of Master in Sociology.

Hust Department of Sociology established three Teaching and Research Sections: Theory and Research Methods, Applied Sociology, Social Work and Social Security; two Research Institutes: Social Security and Demography; the Social Survey Research Center and the China Rural Governance Research Center; and provides Masters in Sociology, Social Security, Applied Psychology and Social Work, and Bachelors in Sociology and Social Work. The academic faculty consists of 28 teaching staff, including 9 professors and 12 associate professors. The Dean of Department of Sociology is Professor Lei Hong.

Dean: Prof Lei Hong
Vice Dean: Prof Sun Qiuyun
                     Prof Ding Jianding
                     Prof Wu Yi