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Applied Sociology Career Spotlight: Graduate Programs versus Small Business

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Here are some of the benefits of joining Graduate Training Schemes versus beginning your career in small to medium-sized enterprises.

Posted bySociology at WorkMarch 4, 2017November 23, 2025Posted inBlog, Career AdviceTags:Applied Sociology Careers, Business

Sociology of Law

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Sociology student and Fullbright Scholar, Jesse Fenichel, worked as a “temp attorney” over the summers before heading to the Philippines to study the ever-growing market for outsourcing American legal work overseas.

Posted bySociology at WorkFebruary 25, 2017April 19, 2026Posted inBlog, StudentsTags:Applied Sociology Careers, Asia, Justice, North America

Applied Sociology Career Spotlight: Politics

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Angelia Schultz has a Masters in sociology and she ran in the Democratic nomination for the USA state of Aberdeen in 2014. She stood on a platform promoting stronger provision of healthcare and education, drawing on sociology.

Posted bySociology at WorkFebruary 18, 2017November 24, 2025Posted inBlog, ProfilesTags:Applied Sociology Careers, Politics

Applied Sociology Career Spotlight: Urban Planning

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The Californian Department of Transportation in the USA has a cultural studies team who are unearthing the city’s cultural heritage.

Posted bySociology at WorkFebruary 11, 2017April 19, 2026Posted inBlog, ProfilesTags:Applied Sociology Careers, Environment

Our Responsibility as Sociologists

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“We need to reflect, respond and recognise our responsibility as sociologists.” – Prof Margaret Abraham, President of the International Sociological Association, has addressed the discriminatory Executive Order by USA President Donald Trump.

Posted bySociology at WorkFebruary 4, 2017April 19, 2026Posted inBlog, Sociology QuotesTags:Africa, Justice, Middle East, Religion

The Power of Sociology

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“[Students] can see the power and relevance of sound social theories and sociological perspectives together with strong methodologies to analyse social conditions and suggest change.” – Malaysian sociologist Professor Abdul Rahman Embong

Posted bySociology at WorkJanuary 28, 2017April 19, 2026Posted inBlog, Sociology Quotes, StudentsTags:Asia, Education

If Karl Marx Was Alive

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“If Karl Marx was alive he would say, I told you so.”

Posted bySociology at WorkJanuary 21, 2017April 19, 2026Posted inBlog, Sociology QuotesTags:Karl Marx, Politics

Sociology More Nimble on its Feet

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“When research is conducted in partnership with community, sociology becomes more ‘nimble on its feet.'” – Philip Nyden, Leslie Hossfeld and Gwendolyn Nyden

Posted bySociology at WorkJanuary 14, 2017April 19, 2026Posted inBlog, Sociology QuotesTags:Applied Sociology, Public Sociology

Social Survey Invented by Sociology

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“Indeed a case might well be made for the statement that the social survey was an invention of the sociologist.” – E. W. Burgess (1916)

Posted bySociology at WorkJanuary 7, 2017April 19, 2026Posted inBlog, Sociology QuotesTags:Theory & Methods

Applied Sociology Goals for 2017

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“Applied sociology goals: exercise the sociological imagination.” New Year’s resolutions for enhancing our collective sociological practice

Posted bySociology at WorkJanuary 2, 2017April 19, 2026Posted inBlog, Sociology QuotesTags:Sociological Imagination, Theory & Methods

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