Given the breadth, adaptability, and utility of sociology, there are a wide range of employment opportunities for B.A. graduates. Perhaps most commonly, graduates get entry level positions in sociological practice or research.
Applied sociology is knowledge directed to understanding immediate problems and their solutions.
Clinical sociology, also concerned with the application of sociological knowledge, extends its involvement in the world by intervening in social settings using a wide range of techniques to help guide the process of change. Clinical sociologists may carry out interventions at the individual, group, organizational, community, and societal levels. They work in counseling, social and environmental impact assessment, evaluation, facilitation, mediation, and conflict resolution. Research - There are as many research specializations as there are content areas and methods of sociological inquiry. Methods range from field work or questionnaire and interview surveys to working with census materials, from analysis of historical documents to actual experiments, whether in laboratory simulation or out in society.