What Can I Do With a Bachelors in Sociology

What can you practice with a degree in sociology? Plenty.

UCD Sociology professor Chris Smith wrote this August 2022 blog piece about how Sociology prepares students for a variety of careers.

The 21st century labor market is fast-changing, increasingly global, and applied science driven. The skills yous need to succeed include inventiveness, innovation, critical thinking, analytic problem-solving, communication, collaboration, multicultural and global understandings, and expressive and persuasive writing skills. Career advancement in an increasingly diverse global society requires the ability to piece of work cooperatively and effectively with people from different cultures, ethnicities and nationalities.

The good news for folklore majors is that your studies are uniquely suited to help you develop the skills you demand for a successful 21st-century career. Sociologists study social life, social change, diverse communities and their interactions, and they use scientific methods to find empirical answers to complex social questions. Studying sociology can help foster your inventiveness, innovation, critical thinking, analytic problem solving and advice skills.

As a graduate with a sociology degree, you volition have a foundation for better understanding and engaging with the globalizing world. You will be equipped with the tools needed to brand sense of the shifting social world and contribute solutions to difficult social problems.  UC Davis students and alumni should connect with the Internship and Career Center (ICC) to learn more than about career options and job opportunities and how to market place the skills learned from the sociology major to an employer.

Given the breadth, adjustability and utility of studying sociology, employment opportunities abound for graduates who have an A.B. caste in sociology.  Y'all can notice a list of organizations/companies where UC Davis alumni who majored in Sociology or Sociology - Organizational Studies have found internships and jobs in the ICC's Majors Database.

 The following list of possibilities is but illustrative — many other paths may be open to you and additional education or training may be required. Careers in Sociology, a publication of the American Sociological Clan, identifies these employment sectors:

• public relations
• marketing and sales
• consumer research
• human resources (personnel management)
• insurance
• real estate
• training
• entrepreneurship
• media

• non-profit agencies
• urban planning
• childcare
• community development
• environmental groups
• advancement

• family planning
• substance abuse education
• rehabilitation counseling
• hospital admissions
• insurance providers

• admissions
• advising
• alumni relations
• development
• administrative support

• law enforcement
• investigations
• probation and parole assistants
• criminal justice
• judicial affairs
• attorney
• paralegal

• professional writing
• research
• editing
• journalism

• rehabilitation
• case management
• youth and elderly services
• recreation
• administration
• social work
• local, state and federal agencies

• unproblematic
• secondary
• special educational activity
• teaching English equally a second language

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Source: https://sociology.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate/careers-for-sociology-majors