About the Department of Sociology

In the late 1950s, UNESCO conducted a feasibility study to introduce sociology as an academic discipline in Bangladesh. As a part of that program, renowned French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss visited the Chittagong Hill Tracts and found an urgency to study indigenous communities from sociological and anthropological perspectives. Lévi-Strauss then strongly recommended establishing the full-fledged Sociology Department at the University of Dhaka. Accordingly, a UNESCO advisor and famous social anthropologist Pierre Bessaignet founded the Sociology Department in 1957 with the support of four faculty members, including American Professor John Owen and Dutch research fellow Co Pot Land. Professor A. K. Nazmul Karim, one of the founders of Bangladesh sociology, began serving ...

Message from Chairman

Dr. Fatema Rezina Iqbal