Thursday, September 15, 2011

Sociology

   

Sociology

Social researcher - designs, formulates, carries out and manages social research projects on topics such as unemployment or crime.
* Counsellor - works with people to explore, in a confidential and safe environment, difficulties, feelings of distress, dissatisfaction or a loss of purpose.
* Community development worker - works with individuals, families and communities to develop skills, plan goals and identify rights and opportunities.
* Advice worker - responds to requests for help from members of the public and assists clients by providing information and confidential advice on a wide range of issues including careers, finance, health and welfare issues.
* - organises and teaches one or more subjects in a general or specialist college of further education (FE), a tertiary or sixth form college or community education centre.
* Social worker - works in a variety of settings and within a framework of relevant legislation and procedures, supporting individuals, families and groups within the community.

Jobs where your degree would be useful
 Probation officer - works to rehabilitate offenders by enforcing conditions of court orders, conducting risk assessments and ensuring offenders’ awareness of the impact of their crime.
* - works with the general public and corporate/business organisations, as well as with charitable trusts, to raise awareness of a charity's work, aims and goals.
* Housing manager/officer - develops, supplies or manages housing and related services on behalf of local authorities, housing associations, universities and property management companies.
* Primary school teacher or Secondary school teacher - develops work and lesson plans and teaches in line with curriculum objectives.
* Human resources officer - advises, develops and implements policies relating to personnel within an organisation such as working practices, recruitment, pay, conditions and diversity.
* Youth worker - promotes the personal, educational and social development of young people. This could be based within social, community or educational settings.

The chief concern of sociology graduates is people, and therefore, jobs in the police force, market research, retail management, journalism, disability advising and the civil service are all areas into which sociology graduates may choose to go.
Sociology does not claim to be a potentially all-inclusive and all-sufficing science of society which might absorb the more specialized social sciences. The late origin of sociology does not mean that its standing as compared with other social sciences is very weak. Its scope has been clearly demarcated right from the early days. Its concepts, terms, typologies and generalizations leading to theories, emerged from the very beginning. Moreover, there are striking similarities between sociology and other social sciences: man as a principal ingredient of their subject matters, applications of some methodological tools like observation, comparative method, casual explanations, testing and modification of hypothesis etc.
When so much is common to sociology on the one hand and the other social sciences it is understandable that there is some amount of commonness in the studies as well as mutual borrowings in the form of data, methods, approaches, concepts and even vocabulary.
In brief, sociology is a distinct social science, but it is not an isolated social science as the current trends indicate that every social science is depending more and more on inter-disciplinary approach, that is, historians and sociologists, for example, might even work together in curricular and search projects which would have been scarcely conceivable prior to about 1945, when each social science tendered to follow the course that emerged in the 19th century; to be confined to a single

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The subject matter of sociology is quite often invisible or not directly observable. However sociologists can observe the consequences of such social characteristics as group pressure, authority, prestige and culture. They then form images of these concepts using what C Wright Mills has called the sociological imagination taking into account the influence in order to view their own society as an outsider might. 
 

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