The Department of Sociology is the successor and bearer of the traditions of Lviv Sociological School, the development and formation of which have acquired special significance with Ukraine’s independence. The first Department of Sociology was founded in 1991 at the Faculty of Economics (1991–2009) of Lviv University. An important stage in the development of sociology at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv was the establishment of the Department of Theory and History of Sociology (with Doctor of Social Sciences, Prof. Chernysh as the Head of the Department (2002–2017)) at History Faculty of in 2002. In 2007, the Department launched the International Lviv Sociological Forum, as well as the publication of “Bulletin of Lviv University. Sociological Series”, which in 2009 became a professional periodical edition in sociology. Since 2018 the Bulletin has been included in four scientometric databases. On September 1, 2016, the Academic Council of Lviv University renamed the Department of History and Theory of Sociology into the Department of Sociology. Since July 1, 2017, the department is headed by Prof. Yu. Pachkovskyi. The Department has a library filled by the project “Civic Education” of the International Renaissance Foundation, which has more than 1,000 items of various scientific literature on sociology. Members of the Department are the authors of numerous textbooks and manuals. The department maintains relations with leading scientific and research centers of Ukraine (Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, sociological faculties of Kyiv, Kharkiv Odesa, Uzhhorod, Zaporizhzhya, and Eastern European universities, etc.). The department has extensive ties and carries out a number of joint educational and research projects with foreign education centers, as well as sociologists from the United Kingdom, Canada, Poland, USA, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and others.