About Department

The Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, has the distinction of being the oldest centre of teaching and research in Sociology and Cultural Anthropology in India. In addition, it is the oldest Department in the University of Mumbai. The Department was set up in 1919 with an eminent British sociologist and town planner Sir Patrick Geddes as the first Professor and Head. Over the last ten decades the department has made pioneering and significant contributions to teaching and research of Sociology in South Asia. The Department, from its inception, contributed in a major way to the project of the struggle for freedom and later to nation building. The Department has played a leading role in the promotion of social science research in general and in the development of sociology and cultural anthropology in particular in four major...