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Recent Sociology Alumni: Would They Major Again: A Qualitative Study

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Topic The research study I chose was titled Recent Sociology Alumni: Would They Major Again?, and looked at whether or not sociology graduates would choose to major in sociology again if they were giving the change to redo their college experience. The authors of the paper focused their study on senior undergraduate students, and they followed up on their attitude on the major soon after graduating.
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Choosing a major is a tough decision for college students. Students worry about making the wrong choice, and even when a decision is made, many students feel like the decision they made isn’t the right one. In fact, the National Center for Educational Statistics states that 80% of college undergraduate students will switch majors at least one time. When it comes to declaring a major in sociology, the decision doesn’t get any easier. Some people would define sociology as a useful major because it opens up job opportunities after college, but others argue that choosing to major in sociology isn’t worth the low earning potential. The problem here is that there are too many conflicting …show more content…

One opinion, is that sociology isn’t a useful major, and the literature examined seems to agree. In 2011, College Confidential came out with a list of the most useful college majors, but sociology wasn’t included. Princeton Review then made its own list of useful college majors in 2014, and again, sociology wasn’t included. Research from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute in 2013 also conveyed a negative opinion of the major by excluding sociology from its established list of top income earners post-graduation. Despite the negative literature, the amount of students majoring in sociology has actually increased by 81% according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. This increase occurred from 1985 to

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