What jobs can you get from majoring in sociology?

You can be a social case worker which is basically the same thing as being a social worker except for having a degree in social work you need a B.S. or B.A. in a social science. You can also work with juvenile delinquents. Other than that, there are a lot a employers that just wants you to have some sort of degree and it really does not matter in what. You just have to research. You also should speak to either someone who holds a degree in sociology or a college adviser.

A 4-year degree in Sociology (either a BA or BS) is not usually enough to get a career that is specific to that subject. Sociology is a subject that studies human behavior, and if you wanted to have a job it is usually doing research or having a job that uses research to influence policies. To do research as a career, you would need to continue your education to get a Masters in Sociology, or better yet a doctorate degree in Sociology (if you want to lead investigations). There you would focus on statistics, research methods, and social theory. You can apply these skills in the private sector by usually doing market research. In the public sector, you might want to go towards a Masters in Public Policy. If you want to counsel or help individuals, you would want to get a Masters in Social Work, and then get certification to be a social worker/counselor. Shortly after I graduated with a BS in Sociology, I got a job as an interviewer for a health research company. Unfortunately I was working with a bunch of people who only had high school diplomas. I could have continued there, but if I wanted to do anything that had to do with the design of the research, I would have needed a Doctorates degree. The illusion that colleges give is that once you get a 4-year degree, all these options will be available to you for jobs. This is not true unless you choose a major that is giving you specialized training in a skill that cannot be easily duplicated by work experience. Sociology is not highly technical at the Bachelors level. Though the theories might be hard to grasp, one does not need to understand the theories to do actual research tasks. Studies usually only require one person or a small team of people that do all the theory work, design the study and write up the data, and an unskilled workforce to collect the information.

I'm a retired nurse and I worked with a guy whose degree was in sociology. He was the director of a rehabilitation facility. It was physical rehab, for patients who had had strokes or surgeries. Often when you see ads for jobs that say they want someone with a degree, what they are really interested in is someone what can start something and finish it. They're really not interested in what the major was. Best of luck in completing your education.

Nanny, day care, senior citizens, child advocate, disabled people, youth worker, gang intervention, parole officer, human resources. Ask at the university what other graduates did with their degrees, colleges track things like that. In most cases these days an employer just needs a degree, any degree, so keep your mind open to other areas also.