Prof. Ling Zhu and Prof. David B. Grusky explore intergenerational factors influencing occupational gender segregation in the United States.
Student Exchange Programme with University of Kent and University of Warwick, UK
The captioned programme organized by the Department is now open for application.
The application deadline is 9 December 2022 (Friday).
Jin Sun has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Department of Sociology starting from January 2023. His research received funding from Stanton Foundation, the European Research Council (ERC), and the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). His articles with collaborators have been published by the American Journal of Sociology, Global Governance, and other peer-reviewed journals. He was honored with the International Geneva Award in 2020. He also contributed chapters to books at Edwards Elgar Publishing and Cambridge University Press. His research focuses on transnational and global sociology, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of law and global governance with regard to global sanctions, financial capitalism, climate change, global environmental law, global digital rules, global health law, multinational financial institutions, and neoliberal globalization, using a mix of methods including the fieldwork, interview, ethnography, participant observation, and data analysis. He passed the Chinese bar in Beijing and Directed Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law. He obtained master’s and Ph.D. degrees, respectively, from Harvard University and the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
I) Admission Talk:
Session 1: 10:00am – 11:00am Prof. Jaemin Lee (English)
Session 2: 11:30am – 12:30am Prof. Nicole Cheung (Chinese)
Session 3: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Prof. Wong Suk-ying (Chinese)
Session 4: 3:30pm – 4:30pm Prof. Jin Lei (English)
Venue: LT2, UG/F, Sino Building, Chung Chi College
Listen to and chat with our professors!
II) Exhibition Booth
Visit our booth and chat with sociology students. Don’t forget to leave a note and tell us about your experience!
III) Experiencing Sociology (9:00am – 5:00pm)
Venue: 4/F Sino Building, Chung Chi College
Join the sociology quiz and win unique souvenirs!
Do you want to know more about sociology, student life at CUHK, and the latest development of our Department? Click the link below!
Sociology Programme Admission Brochure
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September 1, 2022 – December 1, 2022
RGC Deadline of HKPFS at 12:00 Noon (HKT)
CUHK Main Round Deadline of applications at 5:00 P.M (HKT)
CUHK Clearing Round Deadline of applications at 5:00 P.M (HKT), March 31 2023
* Applications in Clearing Round will only be considered subject to availability of places
MA in Sociology Programme Open for Online Application (for 2023’s entry) NOW
Click for the Information Session:
https://www.soc.cuhk.edu.hk/admissions-2/ma-programme/admissions-ma-programme-update/
Our Department is delighted to be hosting Professor Zhou Xueguang for Term 1 of 2022/23 under the University’s Distinguished Visiting Professor Scheme.
Professor Zhou is the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development, a professor of sociology and an FSI senior fellow at Stanford University. His main area of research is institutional changes in contemporary Chinese society, focusing on Chinese organizations and management, social inequality, and state-society relationships.
During the visiting period, apart from academic collaboration and exchange with colleagues and students in and outside the Department, Professor Zhou will also teach an undergraduate course “Complex Organization” (SOCI3001).
Shen, W., Hu, L. C., & Hannum, E. (2021). Effect Pathways of Informal Family Separation on Children’s Outcomes: Paternal Labor Migration and Long-Term Educational Attainment of Left-Behind Children in Rural China. Social Science Research, 97, 102576.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102576
The award is presented to the author(s) of the best research paper published in a given year. Dr. Shen’s work is now recognized as one of 17 nominees from over 2,500 articles published in 2020, from around the world.
A joint project of the Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family, the international award raises the awareness of high quality work-family research among the scholar, consultant, and practitioner communities. Nominations are not accepted. A very rigorous process involving nomination and review by a committee of over 70 leading scholars determined this year finalists from over 2,500 articles published in 70 leading English-language journals from around the world. As the standards of quality for work-family research continue to rise, the actionable findings from the best studies will become more commonplace in business communities to inform policy and best people practices.
Date: 23 August 2022 (Tuesday)
Session: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
For SOCI new students who would like to join this counselling session, please click HERE to register on or before 22 August 2022 (Monday). The counselling session will be conducted via ZOOM. The meeting link will be sent to registered participants in due course.
It is our great honor to announce that one of the Assistant Professors in our Department, Prof. Zhu Ling has recently published an PNAS article with Prof. David Grusky: “The intergenerational sources of the U-turn in gender segregation” in PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (SCIE category: Multidisciplinary Science, rank 9/73 in JCR 2021). The article was a direct submission to PNAS and free for anyone to download. It is an innovative and masterful investigation into the puzzle of the stalled gender convergence (some also call it the stalled gender revolution) that has attracted thousands of research publications in the past 15 to 20 years.
This publication is also a milestone in the history of the Department. For the first time ever one of our faculty members or students appeared as the lead or primary author of a direct submission to any of the big three general-interest science journals, which are PNAS, Nature, and Science. Please click here to read the full article: The intergenerational sources of the U-turn in gender segregation | PNAS
Our MPhil graduate, Mr. Koit Hung, the PhD candidate at The University of Texas at Austin, USA, recently published an article with Prof. Ken-Hou Lin titled “The Network Structure of Occupations: Fragmentation, Differentiation, and Contagion” in American Journal of Sociology (journal’s SSCI category: Sociology, rank 4/149 in JCR 2020).
Our PhD graduate, Prof. Francisco Olivos, also the Research Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, published two articles recently as follows:
1) “Citizen Complaints as an Accountability Mechanism: Uncovering Patterns Using Topic Modeling” in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (SSCI category: Criminology & Penology, rank 14/72 in JCR 2020) [Click here to read the article] and;
2) “Cultural Omnivorousness and Status Inconsistency in Chile: The Role of Objective and Subjective Social Status” in Sociological Research Online (journal’s SSCI category: Sociology, rank 76/149 in JCR 2020) Our current Phd student Peng WANG is the co-author of this article. [Click here to read the article].
Department of Sociology of CUHK ranks 37th in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subjects in 2022. Source: QS World University Rankings by Subjects in 2022 – Sociology
The captioned programme is now open for application. Interested students should complete and submit the application form with supporting documents by 12 noon, 8 March 2022 (Tuesday).
Please see the application guidelines and internship positions appended below (login is required) for more details.
Application guidelines | Internship positions | Application form
Prof Hong Yingyi, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Management, also the Professor (by courtesy) of Department of Sociology, is a contributor of a big article titled “The future of human behaviour research” published in Nature Human Behaviour. Please click here to read the full article.
To forge close relationship and strengthen research collaboration with the University’s key partners in mainland China and Taiwan, CUHK has been organizing a summer research placement programme for mainland and Taiwan students every year since 2008. Co-ordinated by the University’s China Engagement Office (CEO) and supported by various academic and research units, over 900 students from more than 70 CUHK’s strategic partners in mainland China and Taiwan participated in this programme.
Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is pleased to receive talented students for the placement. Successful applicants can have the opportunity to work with the world-leading academic team in a multi-cultural environment.
Starting from 2022-2023, the Sociology Programme will expand the Senior Year Entry admission quota by introducing a new stream ‘Society and Sustainable Development’ (SOCIN-SSD). Collaborating with the Earth System Science Programme of the Faculty of Science, and the Gender Studies Programme of the Faculty of Social Science, the new stream will provide cross-disciplinary training for students who wish to understand key social and environmental challenges of our time and to seek innovative solutions for them. Available only to the Senior Year Entry admission, SOCIN-SSD will offer students a unique study path, specific subject knowledge, and technical skill attainment.
For more admission information for the Sociology Programme@CUHK, please visit the following links:
Sociology Programme (SOCIN)
http://admission.cuhk.edu.hk/programmes/SOCIN.html
‘Society and Sustainable Development’ (SOCIN-SSD, new stream under the Sociology Programme)
http://admission.cuhk.edu.hk/programmes/SOCIN-SSD.html
September 1, 2021 – December 1, 2021
RGC Deadline of HKPFS at 12:00 Noon (HKT)
CUHK Main Round Deadline of applications at 5:00 P.M (HKT)
CUHK Clearing Round Deadline of applications at 5:00 P.M (HKT), March 31 2022,
* Applications in Clearing Round will only be considered subject to availability of places
Student Exchange Programme with University of Kent and University of Warwick, UK
The captioned programme organized by the Department is now open for application. Details of the exchange programme and the application form can be found at :
The application deadline is 26 November 2021 (Friday).
MA in Sociology Programme Open for Online Application (for 2022’s entry) NOW
Click for the Information Session:
https://www.soc.cuhk.edu.hk/admissions-2/ma-programme/admissions-ma-programme-update/
Sociology Admission Talk (11am, 2:30pm) and Guided Exhibition Tour (10am, 3:30pm)
Want to know more about sociology, student life at CUHK, and the latest development of our Department? Click the link below!
Sociology Programme Admission Brochure
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Peter Lau Sociological Imagination Scholarship is now open for application. New Asia undergraduates who joined the Internship Programme organised by the Department this year are eligible to apply. Interested students should complete and submit the online application by 7th October 2021 (Thursday). Please see below the announcement for more details.
Peter Lau Scholarship in Sociology is open for application. New Asia year 2 undergraduates who have achieved excellent results in their year 1 study and in HKDSE or NCEE in Mainland China are eligible to apply. Interested students should complete and submit the online application by 7th October 2021 (Thursday). Please see below the announcement for more details.
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)
Monthly stipend: HK$26,900 (approx. US$3,450)
Conference travel allowance: HK$13,500 (approx. US$1,730) per year
Award: 1st year: HK$40,000; 2nd & 3rd year: HK20, 000 per year
Accommodation: Guaranteed on-campus accommodation & waiving of on-campus hostel fee for the first year
Step 1
Submit an initial application to the RGC through their on-line application system and obtain a HKPFS reference number.
RGC Application deadline: 1 December 2021 at 12:00 noon Hong Kong Time
Step 2
Submit your full application through CUHK’s Online Application System for Postgraduate Programmes and quote the HKPFS reference number.
CUHK Application deadline: 1 December 2021 at 5:00pm Hong Kong Time
Scholarship for Internship Programme is open for application. Students joined the Internship Programme organised by the Department this year are eligible to apply. Interested students should complete and submit the online application by 15 September 2021 (Wednesday). Please see below the announcement for more details.
Date: 24 August 2021 (Tuesday)
Session: 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
For SOCI new students who would like to join this counselling session, please click HERE to register on or before 23 August 2021 (Monday). The counselling session will be conducted via ZOOM. The meeting link will be sent to registered participants in due course.
Gan Yumei, a PhD graduate from our Department who is now an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University- School of Media and Communication, has just received the Young Scholar Thesis Award 2020. It is an annual award and only one person can receive this award in each Faculty at CUHK. Her thesis title is “Choreographing Affective Relationships across Distances: Multigenerational Engagement in Video Calls between Migrant Parents and Their Left-behind Children in China”. This thesis is an exceptionally innovative, exciting and original study of video-mediated conversation in migrant families. While the phenomenon of ‘left-behind children’ has been the subject of many previous studies, this is the first that examines how parents and children actually ‘do’ family in their video calls. Congratulations to Yumei and her thesis supervisor Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen!
甘雨梅是社會學系的一名博士畢業生，及後獲上海交通大學媒體與傳播學院聘請為一名助理教授，她的論文獲得了 “CUHK Young Scholars Thesis Award 2020″，這是一個年度頒發的獎項，每個學院只有一位學生可以獲此殊榮。
她的論文課題為 “Choreographing Affective Relationships across Distances: Multigenerational Engagement in Video Calls between Migrant Parents and Their Left-behind Children in China”，這篇原創論文深入研究了在外務工家庭的視頻交流現象，立意新穎，令人振奮。
儘管”留守兒童”現象已經在此前的研究主題中出現多次，但這篇論文首次省視了現實中父母與留守兒童究竟是如何通過視頻通話保持家庭的情感聯系。
在此恭喜雨梅和她的論文導師Prof. Christian Greiffenhagen!
A new concentration will be introduced in 2021-2022. Students may declare a concentration, on a voluntary basis, in the final term of studies when the requisite courses for a concentration have been completed or are expected to be completed in the final term. Students are allowed to declare no more than 2 concentrations. Upon approval of the declaration by the Department, the said concentration will be indicated in the academic transcript.
Key Note:
- Students need to take a total of 18 units to fulfill the concentration requirement
- There are two subthemes under this new concentration: i. Society and Sustainability and ii. Environment and Technology
SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABILITY
(At least 9 units, with 3 units must be either SOCI3002 Social Stratification or/and SOCI4204 Sociology of Education, and a maximum of 12 units)
-take at least 6 units of courses listed below:
Course Code / Title:
SOCI 2116 Criminals and the Law
SOCI 2208 Urban Sociology
SOCI 2216 Social Problems in China
SOCI 2218 Marriage and Family
SOCI 3204 Sociology of Crime and Deviance
SOCI 3208 Gender and Society
SOCI 3227 Social Demography
SOCI 3237 Medical Sociology
SOCI 4202 Teaching Workshop for Sociology Students
SOCI 3230 Globalization and China
SOCI 4020 Graduation Thesis II
SOCI 4410 / 4420 Directed Studies I /II
ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
(At least 6 units, with 3 units must be SOCI3239 Issues in Environment and Society, and a maximum of 9 units)
-take SOCI3239 Issues in Environment and Society (new course introduced in 2021/2022), and;
-take either SOCI3238 Digital Sociology (new course introduced in 2021/2022); or/and SOCI3102 Social Networks and Social Capital; or/and SOCI4210 Science and Technology Studies
For information of the three existing sociology concentrations, please visit here (https://www.soc.cuhk.edu.hk/undergraduate/undergraduate-programme-sociology-concentrations/):
Do you want to know more about sociology, student life at CUHK, and the latest development of our Department? Click the link below!
Ms. LEE Lai Han, our Teaching Assistant, will leave our Department today. She has recently received the University’s “15-year Long Service Award” in recognition of her long years of service at the University. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt gratitude to Ms. Lee for her invaluable contribution and teaching support to the Department of Sociology over the years.
30-June-2021 Wednesday
Sage Sociology has recently published a podcast where our PhD candidate, Francisco Olivos, discusses his most recent publication in Social Psychology Quarterly, the social-psychological journal of the American Sociological Association. Social Psychology Quarterly (SPQ) publishes theoretical and empirical papers on the link between the individual and society. This includes the study of the relations of individuals to one another, as well as to groups, collectivities, and institutions.
Scholarships for student exchange are now open for application. Interested students should complete and submit the application form to the General Office by 30 June 2021 (Wednesday).
Please see below the announcement for more details.
Students who wish to apply for change of major to the Sociology programme must submit the application using the e-Application form under CUSIS before 5:00 p.m. of June 29, 2021 (Tuesday) (NOT June 30 as our Department schedules an internal deadline to allow some time for the arrangement of an interview, if any, before the approval period starting from July 2 to 8, 2021). Please submit the following documents via CUSIS:
- A completed e-Application form for Change of Major,
- An explanatory letter for the reasons of application,
- A copy of an unofficial transcript showing the academic results within the University, and
- A copy of the HKCEE, HKALE results, or other public examination results acquired at secondary school level.
Note: Incomplete submission of documents will delay the application process or lead to the result of application not being processed. Please be aware of the minimum requirements (please refer to the mass email from Registration and Examinations Section (RES) or its web site at www.res.cuhk.edu.hk) for change of major set by the University Senate.
If shortlisted, students will be contacted for an online interview likely scheduled on July 5-6, 2021 (please enable camera or webcam during the interview). Applications MUST reach the Department before 5:00 p.m. of June 29, 2021 (Tuesday) via CUSIS. Late applications will not be processed. Successful applicants MUST confirm their acceptance of the NEW major during the period of July 9 to 13, 2021.
For enquiries, please call 3943-6606 or 3943-1486.
Scholarship for social services is now open for application. Interested students should complete and submit the application form by 15 June 2021 (Tuesday).
Please see below the announcement for more details.
Announcement | Application Form
Department of Sociology of CUHK ranks 37th in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subjects in 2021. Source: QS World University Rankings by Subjects in 2021 – Sociology
Yifan Shen, an MPhil graduate from this Department, had published (in 2021) a single-authored paper “The Nonlinear Linkage between Earnings Homogamy and Earnings Inequality between Married Couples” in Demography–the premier journal for population research [see note below]. Congratulations to Yifan for turning his master thesis into an outstanding research contribution!
Yifan started this project in 2014, his first year at CUHK. His advisor Professor Tony Tam suggested him to try this topic to learn how to do research. He finished the first draft in 2016 which ended up being his MPhil thesis. It was not until two years later (2018), during his second year of PhD at Brown University, that he restarted to work on this paper.
Looking back, he recognizes how crucial the two years he spent at CUHK was to the project as it was during those years that he got the financial and intellectual support to immerse himself in the literature and develop a deep understanding of the question. As he savors the fruitful outcome from this long-running project, he encourages fellow graduate students at CUHK to stay focused and persevere in their intellectual endeavors: “At the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
The Department is really proud of Yifan, not only for his remarkable publication but also for setting an example that speaks loud and clear on the virtue of perseverance in graduate training towards a scholarly career.
Note:
Earnings inequality between couples has been rising in many countries. Yifan’s new paper shows that in both urban China and the United States income homogamy increased over time. Most importantly, the increase in income homogamy between the top 20% of husbands and their wives has played a major role in lifting the overall inequality between couples.
The captioned programme is now open for application. Interested students should complete and submit the application form with supporting documents by 9:00am, 11 March 2021 (Thursday).
Please see the application guidelines and internship positions appended below (login is required) for more details.
Application guidelines | Internship positions | Application form
One of our MPhil graduates Mr. Loa See-Pok has received this year’s Hong Kong Sociological Association (HKSA) Best Thesis Award for his MPhil thesis: “(Re)Classing Homosexuality: A Comparative Study of Middle-class and Working-class Gay Men in Hong Kong” (supervised by Professor Susanne Y. P. Choi)
Revised counter service hours in the time of COVID-19 (until further notice)
Monday – Friday : 9:00am-5:00pm (lunch hour : 1:00pm-2:00pm)
The captioned programme organized by the Department is now open for application. Details of the exchange programme and the application form can be found at:
The application deadline is 1 December 2020 (Tuesday).
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)
Monthly stipend: HK$26,600 (approx. US$3,410)
Conference travel allowance: HK$13,300 (approx. US$1,700) per year
Award: 1st year: HK$40,000; 2nd & 3rd year: HK20,000 per year
Accommodation: Guaranteed on-campus accommodation & waiving of on-campus hostel fee for the first year
Step 1
Submit an initial application to the RGC through their on-line application system and obtain a HKPFS reference number.
RGC Application deadline: 1 December 2020 at 12:00 noon Hong Kong Time
Step 2
Submit your full application through CUHK’s Online Application System for Postgraduate Programmes and quote the HKPFS reference number.
CUHK Application deadline: 1 December 2020 at 5:00pm Hong Kong Time
The scholarships for internship programme are now available. Students joined the Internship Programme organised by the Department this year are eligible to apply. Details of the scholarships can be found at:
https://mycuhk.sharepoint.com/sites/Faculty.SSC.SOC/SitePages/Scholarships-and-Awards.aspx
The deadline of application is 16 September 2020 (Wednesday).
Yifan Shen, an MPhil graduate from this Department, will publish a single-authored paper “The Nonlinear Linkage between Earnings Homogamy and Earnings Inequality between Married Couples” in Demography–the premier journal for population research [see note below]. Congratulations to Yifan for turning his master thesis into an outstanding research contribution!
Yifan started this project in 2014, his first year at CUHK. His advisor Professor Tony Tam suggested him to try this topic to learn how to do research. He finished the first draft in 2016 which ended up being his MPhil thesis. It was not until two years later (2018), during his second year of PhD at Brown University, that he restarted to work on this paper.
Looking back, he recognizes how crucial the two years he spent at CUHK was to the project as it was during those years that he got the financial and intellectual support to immerse himself in the literature and develop a deep understanding of the question. As he savors the fruitful outcome from this long-running project, he encourages fellow graduate students at CUHK to stay focused and persevere in their intellectual endeavors: “At the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
The Department is really proud of Yifan, not only for his remarkable publication but also for setting an example that speaks loud and clear on the virtue of perseverance in graduate training towards a scholarly career.
Note:
Earnings inequality between couples has been rising in many countries. Yifan’s new paper shows that in both urban China and the United States income homogamy increased over time. Most importantly, the increase in income homogamy between the top 20% of husbands and their wives has played a major role in lifting the overall inequality between couples.
Professor Andrew Junker’s new book Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora (Published by Cambridge University Press) was selected for the Book Award: Asia/Transnational, by American Sociological Association Asia/Asian America Section.
Details of the book can be found here.
Prof. Bo JIANG, Research Assistant Professor (Profile)
Bo Jiang is a Research Assistant Professor in The Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is primarily interested in topics related to transnational crimes and evidence-based policing. His research relies on interdisciplinary approaches to address policy-relevant issues within criminology and sociology, drawing on methods from computational sciences. His current work focuses on (1) statistical learning of terrorist organizations; and (2) spatial-temporal analysis of crime hot spots and harm spots.
Prof. Jiang earned a PhD from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and MS degree from the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He spent five years as a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). Since 2018, he has held an appointment with the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge as a Data Analysis Consultant.
Prof. Jaemin LEE, Assistant Professor (Profile)
Jaemin Lee is a social scientist interested in social networks, mathematical sociology, and computational social science. He studies social influence in the political, economic, and school contexts. His research aims to understand various substantive topics including political polarization, product diffusion, friendship segregation, and intergroup relations. Methodologically, he uses agent-based modeling, field experiments, and longitudinal network analysis.
A sociology Ph.D. from Duke University, Prof. Lee worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. He received an Outstanding Dissertation-in-Progress Award by the American Sociological Association’s Mathematical Sociology Section and a Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award from the American Political Science Association (Political Communication).
Prof. Wensong SHEN, Assistant Professor (Profile)
Wensong Shen is an incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020. His research focuses on education and health, and especially the interaction between education and health in the context of social stratification and inequality. Broadly speaking, Prof. Shen utilizes quantitative methods to explore how individuals and families with different social backgrounds experience the complex process of social stratification, and how such experiences shape their life opportunities and consequences such as education and health.
Prof. Ling ZHU, Assistant Professor (Profile)
Ling Zhu received an MS in Statistics and a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. Before joining CUHK she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Stanford Center for Poverty and Inequality. Her overarching research interests consist of two substantive topics and one methodological theme: (1) state governance in authoritarian regimes – how the bureaucratic organizations are structured and the bureaucrats are incentivized to maintain a delicate balance between political control (which requires power centralization) and regional development (which requires power de-centralization), (2) mechanisms of reproducing economic inequality, gender segregation, and family advantages/disadvantages in China and in the United States, and (3) understanding misuses of causal inference methodology. The substantive studies are unified by a sociological interest in understanding how political and social institutions work together to shape social structures and often built on newly available big data and state-of-the-art data analytics for causal inference, network analysis, and machine learning techniques.
The following scholarship for Social Services is open for application:
Lau Cheung Kwai Lan Memorial Scholarship in Sociology
劉張桂蘭社會學紀念獎學金
The scholarship was donated by Dr. Lau Yiu Chung Laurie (劉耀忠博士) and his wife, Mrs. Lau Lam Cheuk Man (劉林卓敏女士), in commemoration of Mrs. LAU Cheung Kwai Lan (劉張桂蘭女士), the beloved mother of Dr. Lau. This Scholarship emphasizes the academic performance, humanistic sensitivity and social service of sociology students.
This year there is one award with HK$5,000 for a non-first-year student majoring in sociology at undergraduate level in 2017/18. Students can apply only once in their entire course of study at this university. S/he should have obtained an average GPA of 3.0 or above in previous years, and have provided significant services to his/her fellow students and/or the community in Hong Kong at large.
Application deadline: 15 June 2020 (Monday)
Enquiries: 3943 6271 / sociology@cuhk.edu.hk
Application form | Supplementary information form
The following scholarship for Student Exchange is open for application:
Yan Wo Tong (International) Limited Award for Student Exchange
仁和堂(國際)有限公司海外交流獎學金)
The award is established with a grant from UGC for matching the donation by Yan Wo Tong (International) Limited. The award aims to encourage undergraduate students of the Department of Sociology to participate in exchange programmes overseas or in mainland China organised by the Department, College, or the University. The award of the amount $5,000, will subsidize 1 local student* participating in exchange programme.
*The recipients of the award are restricted to local students as per the regulations of the matching grant.
Application deadline: 15 June 2020 (Monday)
Enquiries: 3943 6271 / sociology@cuhk.edu.hk
Students who wish to apply for change of major to the Sociology programme must submit the application using the e-Application form under CUSIS before 5:00 p.m. of June 30, 2020 (Tuesday) (NOT July 7 as our Department schedules an internal deadline to allow some time for the arrangement of an interview, if any, before the approval period starting from July 8 to 13, 2020). Please submit the following documents via CUSIS:
- A completed e-Application form for Change of Major,
- An explanatory letter for the reasons of application,
- A copy of an unofficial transcript showing the academic results within the University, and
- A copy of the HKCEE, HKALE results, or other public examination results acquired at secondary school level.
Note: Incomplete submission of documents will delay the application process or lead to the result of application not being processed. Please be aware of the minimum requirements (please refer to the mass email from Registration and Examinations Section (RES) or its web site at www.res.cuhk.edu.hk) for change of major set by the University Senate.
If shortlisted, students will be contacted for an online interview likely scheduled on July 9, 2020 (please enable camera or webcam during the interview). Applications MUST reach the Department before 5:00 p.m. of June 30, 2020 (Tuesday) via CUSIS. Late applications will not be processed. Successful applicants MUST confirm their acceptance of the NEW major during the period of July 14 to 17, 2020.
For enquiries, please call 3943-6606 or 3943-1486.
Department of Sociology of CUHK ranks 39th in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subjects in 2020. Source: QS World University Rankings by Subjects in 2020 – Sociology
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The captioned programme is now open for application. Interested students should complete and submit the application form with supporting documents by 9:00am, 9 March 2020 (Monday). Please see the application guidelines and internship positions appended below (login is required) for more details.
Application guidelines | Internship positions | Application form
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The captioned exchange programme is now open for application. Interested students should complete and submit the attached application form with copies of transcripts and other supporting documents to the General Office on or before 22 November 2019 (Friday) 9 December 2019 (Monday). Please see the below announcement for more details. Announcement | Application form (Word)
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
Scholarships for Internship Programme are open for application. Students joined the Internship Programme organised by the Department this year are eligible to apply. Interested students should complete and submit the online application by 2 October 2019 (Wednesday). Please see below the announcement for more details.
Announcement | Application Form
For more details about further studies and employment of our MPhil and PhD Graduates, please refer to MPhil-PhD website.
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
For more details about further studies and employment of our MPhil and PhD Graduates, please refer to MPhil-PhD website.
Prof. Susanne Choi has been awarded the Research Mentorship Award 2018 by the Faculty of Social Science in recognition of her outstanding performance and achievements in postgraduate supervision.
Students who wish to apply for change of major to the Sociology programme must submit the application using the e-Application form under CUSIS before 5:00 p.m. of June 19, 2019 (Wednesday) (NOT June 27 as our Department schedules an internal deadline to allow some time for the arrangement of an interview, if any, before the approval period starting from June 28 to July 5, 2019).
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
The newsletter in PDF format can be accessed here.
The newsletter is an initiative of the graduate students of the department and is published on a monthly basis. Previous issues are on the newsletter page.
日期: 2019 年 3 月 27 日
時間: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
地點: 香港中文大學信和樓 4 樓 422 室
查詢: (852) 3943 6271 / sociology@cuhk.edu.hk
Department of Sociology of CUHK ranks 41st in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subjects in 2019.
Source: QS World University Rankings by Subjects in 2019 – Sociology
Date: Nov 17, 2018 (Saturday)
Time: 2:30 -4:30 p.m.
Venue: Lecture Theater 9, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK
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Scholarships for Internship Programme are now open for application. Interested students should complete and submit the application form to the General Office on or before 3 October 2018 (Wednesday).
Please see below the announcement for more details. Application form can be downloaded via the link as below.
Professor CHOI Susanne Y.P.’s book “Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China” received the 2018 Best Book Award from Sociology of Migration (RC31) of International Sociological Association.