


UC Davis students and alumni should connect with the Internship and Career Center (ICC) to learn more about career options and job opportunities and how to market the skills learned from the sociology major to an employer.

You will be equipped with the tools needed to make sense of the shifting social world and contribute solutions to difficult social problems. Studying sociology can help foster your creativity, innovation, critical thinking, analytic problem solving and communication skills.Īs a graduate with a sociology degree, you will have a foundation for better understanding and engaging with the globalizing world. Sociologists study social life, social change, diverse communities and their interactions, and they use scientific methods to find empirical answers to complex social questions. The good news for sociology majors is that your studies are uniquely suited to help you develop the skills you need for a successful 21st-century career. Career advancement in an increasingly diverse global society requires the ability to work cooperatively and effectively with people from different cultures, ethnicities and nationalities. The skills you need to succeed include creativity, innovation, critical thinking, analytic problem-solving, communication, collaboration, multicultural and global understandings, and expressive and persuasive writing skills. The 21st century labor market is fast-changing, increasingly global, and technology driven. UCD Sociology professor Chris Smith wrote this August 2017 blog piece about how Sociology prepares students for a variety of careers.
