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41409.08 – Sociologists

Sociologists study the development, structure, social patterns and interrelationships of human societies.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Sociologist
  • Urban sociologist

Core competencies

  • Learning and Teaching Strategies, and Instructing to develop effective teaching strategies to promote learning and to foster students' understanding and interest in sociology
  • Social Perceptiveness to be perceptive to social cues and behaviours in order to design research studies that accurately capture the nuances of social phenomena
  • Verbal Ability and Speech Clarity to present complex sociological data, conclusions and recommendations to governments, educational institutions, organizations and other interested bodies
  • Inductive Reasoning to analyze and collect data from observations, discussions and documents to develop theories and conclusions about social behaviour, structures and relationships
  • Independence to conduct independent research to develop new insights and challenge prevailing ideas in the study of social phenomena
  • Knowledge in Humanities to understand and apply principles, theories and methods of sociology to advance knowledge of social patterns and phenomena, such as the family, community, education, industrial relations, crime, politics, minority and ethnic relations, poverty and mass communications

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Study the development, structure, social patterns and interrelationships of human society.

Additional information

  • Specialize in particular areas of social sciences and humanities disciplines. These include gerontologists (specialists in the phenomena and problems of aging), graphoanalysts (specialists in handwriting analysis) and others.
  • Specialization usually exists within each of these occupations and is usually obtained through university study or through experience.

Similar occupations classified elsewhere

Exclusions:

  • College and other vocational instructors (41210)
  • Economists and economic policy researchers and analysts (41401)
  • Mathematicians, statisticians and actuaries (21210)
  • Secondary school teachers (41220)
  • Social policy researchers, consultants and program officers (41403)

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