Introduction
The Department of Sociology (DoS) was established at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in 1994, by New Humanity in partnership with the University of Bologna, the Catholic University of Milan, and the University of Pisa. Its goal is to offer systematic knowledge about the fundamentals of Sociology and the methodologies of social research in order to stimulate among the students critical and analytical reflection about the evolution and challenges of the new socioeconomic situation and its impact on Cambodia and South East Asia.
The DoS aims to encourage the younger generation to be committed to and consistent with their own social and cultural reality. It is hoped they will favor the most vulnerable groups in society who are having to cope with the rapid process of change due to modernization and the arbitrary processes of globalization.
The DoS has been involved, since its establishment, in an attempt to redress the shortage of sociological knowledge in Cambodia by finding out the most relevant socio-cultural problems and dynamically unifying theory and field experience to propose solutions for them. It has set up a valuable research tradition at RUPP using a sociological and anthropological approach to help the students develop a genuine spirit of research to understand their own distinctive social, political, economic, and cultural system.
Since 1998 the DoS has consistently provided an important group of professionals to Cambodian society who have served government, NGOs, and the private sector in various roles including researcher, educator, policy maker, consultants. The DoS has conducted Master Program in Sociology-Anthropology in 2004 which recognized and approved by the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports under the Brakas number 1223, dated on September 01, 2004.
Contact Info
- Master Program Coordination Office
- Room 007, RUPP Campus II, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Russian Confederation Blvd. (110), Phnom Penh. - Tel: (855) 12 926 127/ 97 527 5 169/77 937 773/15 578 678
- Email: thy.naroeun@rupp.edu.kh thynaroeun@gmail.com soc.mp@rupp.edu.kh
Student Life
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