What do people do with a Social Science degree?
Because the scope of Social Science is as broad as society itself, the range of possibilities for a purpose-driven career and a meaningful life with a Social Science degree is staggeringly wide. What do people do with a Social Science degree? Among other things, they:
- Address food insecurity
- Advocate for better policy
- Agitate for human rights
- Anticipate breakdowns in public safety
- Archive history as it happens
- Break into business
- Bring communities together
- Broaden horizons
- Call on clients in social work
- Collect data for the government
- Consult to improve workplaces
- Cultivate connections
- Direct social programs
- Divert bullying and violence
- Draft legislation
- Enter academics
- Head to law school
- Hear others’ stories
- Help organ donation drives work better
- Imagine alternatives
- Improve childhood outcomes
- Invent new forms of social media
- Measure inequality
- Mediate conflicts
- Mentor the next generation
- Notice difference
- Open clinical practice
- Organize
- Prevent and treat substance abuse
- Release breaking news
- Respond to natural and human disasters
- Run for public office
- Serve as victim advocates
- Speak truth to power
- Spotlight injustice in the criminal justice system
- Stop epidemics
- Teach what they know
- Track aging populations
- Work as lobbyists
We care. We think. We research. And then we act. Through this combination, in ways large and small, we change the world.
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