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Challenges and Opportunities in Applied Sociology Careers

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Sociology graduates identify gaps in their vocational training and the careers they go into.

Posted bySociology at WorkJanuary 3, 2019December 27, 2025Posted inBlog, Career AdviceTags:Applied Sociology Careers, Careers in Applied Sociology series, Job Hunting, Sociology Students

Happy New Year 2019

"Produce positive social change through active intervention" (Bruhn 1999). Happy New Year, colleagues! A quick post about what we have planned for you for the year ahead.

Posted bySociology at WorkJanuary 2, 2019December 20, 2025Posted inBlog, Sociology Quotes

The Sociological Imagination

A multi-racial crowd of people walking down a busy street. Text reads: The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise. - C. Wright Mills

"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both." - C. Wright Mills

Posted bySociology at WorkDecember 16, 2018January 1, 2026Posted inSociology QuotesTags:C. Wright Mills, sociology quotes

Sociology Careers in High Demand

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Sociology skills remain in high demand in government, the not-for-profit sector and in the corporate sector.

Posted bySociology at WorkMay 13, 2017November 17, 2025Posted inBlog, Career AdviceTags:Applied Sociology Careers, James Wilsdon2 Comments on Sociology Careers in High Demand

Foucault and Chomsky Debate Human Nature

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What is our role in social justice as applied sociologists? In this debate from 1971, Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky disagree about the fundamental qualities of "human nature"

Posted bySociology at WorkMay 4, 2017December 20, 2025Posted inBlog, Sociology QuotesTags:Applied Sociology, Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, public sociology, social justice

Call Marx

Street art showing Karl Marx on the phone, with the text: Call Marx

Is it time to take control of the means of production? A reminder to phone a friend

Posted bySociology at WorkApril 8, 2017December 20, 2025Posted inBlog, Sociology QuotesTags:Karl Marx, Sociology

Benefits of Sociology to Future Careers

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A new report identifies four areas of innovation that will open up employment opportunities: technological methods, interdisciplinary methods, applied sociological skills, and consultancy.

Posted bySociology at WorkApril 1, 2017November 29, 2025Posted inBlog, Career AdviceTags:Applied Sociology Careers, Theory & Methods

A Sociology for Women

Dorothy Smith is a white woman with white hair swept back. She is smiling lightly, and stands in front of a tree

"A sociology for women would offer a knowledge of the social organisation and determinations of the properties and events of our directly experienced world." Dorothy Smith helped to revolutionise sociological methods through feminist principles.

Posted bySociology at WorkMarch 25, 2017December 20, 2025Posted inBlog, Sociology QuotesTags:Dorothy Smith, gender, Sociology, Women1 Comment on A Sociology for Women

Sociology of Economics

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Professors Herbert Gans and Michèle Lamont have been interviewed by The New York Times, about what social policy might look like if sociologists had as much influence as economists.

Posted bySociology at WorkMarch 18, 2017December 31, 2025Posted inBlog, PractitionersTags:Economic sociology, Economy, Sociology

Applied sociology career spotlight: Non-Government Organisations

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We look at the career of Senegal-born sociologist Moustapha Diouf, who began his career as a researcher for UNESCO, and is now advisor to the Prime Minister.

Posted bySociology at WorkMarch 18, 2017November 19, 2025Posted inBlog, ProfilesTags:Applied Sociology Careers, NGO, Sociology2 Comments on Applied sociology career spotlight: Non-Government Organisations

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