What kinds of jobs does someone with a degree in Sociology get?
I started to answer this question, and then I chickened out, because from the tone of it, it sounds like someone has an axe to grind, and wants to make fun of sociology. So I felt a serious answer would get clobbered. Now, from the discussion, it seems like maybe you are serious, and maybe aren’t trying to bash social science, government, or academia. Just so you know, asking questions in a way that can be interpreted as rhetorical (“who hires these people”) can be off-putting in a way that I hope you did not mean. If you’re trolling, I will personally seek you out and goo you! (That’s a joke!) As it sounds like you’ve already heard, some socilogists go into market research. Sociologists are typically trained in data gathering and analysis skills. Some go into qualitative analysis (focus groups, interviews) and some go into quantitative analysis (surveys, and statistical analysis). They are trained to answer all kinds of questions, and they have more generalizable skills, that can be a
