DETAIL OF CLASSIFICATION ITEM

Classification: International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) - FIELDS

Abbreviation: ISCED97_OBORY Version: 1 Validity: 01.01.2008 - 09.09.9999 Family: Education

Language version: EN

Classification level: 3

Item: 312 - Sociology and culturology

Item's explanatory note:

Sociology and cultural studies is the study of human beings and the way they behave
in groups and in relation to the society. Study of ethnology and social anthropology is
included in this field, likewise is the study of human and social geography. Programmes
with the following main content are classified here:

Cultural geography
Cultural studies
Demography/population studies
Gender studies
Ethnology
Social anthropology
Social geography
Sociology

Exclusions:

Social welfare programmes where emphasis is given to practical social work are
excluded from this field and included in field 762 ‘Social work and counselling’.

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Correspondences:
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) - FIELDS - level 2 - Narrow fields	31	Social and behavioural science