The sociologist's professional profile is very broad, because it has at its disposal a wide range of possibilities in the labor market.
sociology White Paper sets out five main areas:
- Social Intervention.
- Human Resources.
- Education.
- Applied Social Research (This includes social studies itself
such, market research and public opinion research).
- Public Policy.
addition to human resources in business, sociologists noted for having a large field of work in market research, opinion marketing.Esto public and the sociologist's because a study inclusive of consumption as social practice, and their symbolic representations, brand image or marketing strategies. Moreover, sociologists are trained to analyze public opinion, the design and implementation of communication strategies in all types of organizations, studies of behavior, attitudes and opinions of different social groups.
Various topics of study that are addressed by sociologists and today are very important, especially at the institutional level: local development issues environmental, equal gender, immigration, social integration, socialization processes, poverty, exclusion, study of organizations, violence, mass communication, quality of life, dependency ... As noted many issues are consistent with social policies and the welfare state.
Moreover, at present, are emerging new areas of work on the rise, as the evaluation of public policies and organizations and work in l ouch known as the "third sector" (NGOs, Foundations ... .)
personally believe that social research (both pure and applied the most) is probably the country with greater interest and more projection.
To say goodbye, I want to leave a picture of where I am working as an intern in the field of research, the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), specifically in central and Human Sciences Social. I assure you that the scope of sociological and social research in general, is a booming field of work and very interesting.