Why study Sociology and get a Sociology degree?

The people that are most suited to doing sociology are people who have questions about the world in which they live in because essentially that's what sociology is. It's about asking questions about why is this happening? What is it that is happening? And that can relate to absolutely anything.

There is a passion in sociology. Sociology is lesson orientation to knowledge as much as an orientation to life. Students now have to engage in degrees that provide them some level of opportunity for employment. Sociology generates a level of passion for the world around you.

So gone are the days really when sociology was not seen as a particularly vocational discipline to be engaged with. Earlier sociology was associated only with social field or social work. Whereas now there are all sorts of spheres of work you can go into. We live in a rapidly changing world where we have a crisis of capitalism, we have levels of migration that are unprecedented; the world is globalized, and it's run through communication networks; all of those things we can only understand and interrogate through knowing sociology or its applications to those things.

So, in fact, sociology now is in a position where it can fit in almost any job that one does.

At under graduate level, sociology must be studied at those universities who offer two very distinct things:

1. First, the faculty or teaching staff must be very passionate about integrating their own research into their teaching. They must have specialist modules like on media war and terrorism, media global formats, crime and news in the criminal-justice system, etc. designed accordingly by their staff research expertise. This will keep them at a very cutting edge in their teaching.
2. Secondly, the sociology department of a university must not 'Only Teach Sociology' but also 'DO SOCIOLOGY' in the environment in which it's based. For instance, keeping a module in which exploration of a certain place or city is done. Here, it literally means going out of classroom walls and beyond books and doing sociology in society. Modules giving such a practical exposure and experience are necessary for students to help them view and analyze their surrounding world through a sociological lens.

So study sociology in a university to master the world around you.