Graduates of UVM’s sociology department mostly work in human service agencies, but also go on to masters in social work programs, law school or other graduate level education. One former student drew on her sociology training in gerontology to start her own business. Another became an investment advisor. Sociology majors generally leave with excellent people skills and presentation skills, which prepares them for any field of work.
At UVM, sociology is similar to other liberal arts degrees: the skills you acquire are transferrable to many fields. A liberal arts degree equips you to do research, write and read critically and analytically so they can be trained for any kind of work. That said, many public or nonprofit agencies, governmental bureaus, and community programs hire students with specifically sociological training, as do organizations that need people with skills in sociological methodology and social statistics.
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Higher Education Administrator
Sarah Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her research examines state and organizational-level policy change and diffusion, and the role social movements have on these processes. She has published papers on how protest impacts multi-national firm-level decisions regarding divestment in Burma, and on how advocacy organizations learn new strategies and tactics from those with which they collaborate. She has published a book with Cambridge University Press Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility and has published widely in scholarly journals.