Why I Chose Sociology

One main reason why I chose Sociology as my major is because it’s very broad and there are many available careers that have peek an interest to me. A career that I have thought of pursuing is a Family Caseworker. The duty of a family caseworker is to provide social services and assistance to a family, child, or school to improve their social and psychological functioning’s. Family case workers job is also to advise families and a person so they can have some advice on how to cope with their issues. The requirements for this career is a bachelor’s degree on social work however studies either in sociology or psychology are relevant to this field. There are higher positions in this career which is supervisory but a master’s degree is usually required.

Some crucial skills needed for this career is helping, reasoning, social perceptiveness, decision making, writing and authoring. These skills do relate to my weaknesses and strengths. For example, one of my academic strengths is decision making and this can come in handy to a family case worker because they need logic to identify solutions to their client’s problems and case. Base on my skills and value assessments results the skill “helping” is one of my strengths and it’s true because I’m a caring person that will try their best to help someone out. However, one of my weakness is writing and authoring and the reason is that I have poor writing skills and I have trouble sometimes writing and structuring essays. One way that can help me understand more about this career is joining clubs in campus. I believe and have heard that there are organizations where people volunteer to help kids in low income families by tutoring them. Another way is internships such as caseworker assistants which people have the opportunity to work with experience case