Occupation Atlassociologist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/11df8941-508c-4103-ad40-52cdf9430a59
sociologist
Sociologists focus their research on explaining social behaviour and the way people have organised themselves as a society. They research and explain the way societies have evolved by describing their legal, political, and economic systems and their cultural expressions.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ISAInvestigative · Social · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative6.50
- S Social4.36
- A Artistic3.99
- C Conventional3.60
- E Enterprising3.08
- R Realistic1.56
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Sociologists (19-3041.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (44)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply for research funding
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct qualitative research
- conduct quantitative research
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- gather data
- geography
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- interpret current data
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- monitor sociological trends
- observe human behaviour
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- research design
- scientific research methodology
- sociology
- speak different languages
- statistics
- study human societies
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- write scientific publications
Optional (37)
- African studies
- European integration
- action research
- advise legislators
- advise on organisational culture
- advise on personnel management
- advise on public relations
- anthropology
- apply blended learning
- apply teaching strategies
- communication studies
- conduct public surveys
- content marketing strategy
- cultural history
- demography
- develop scientific theories
- economic anthropology
- economics
- gender studies
- history
- interview focus groups
- interview techniques
- legal studies
- manage quantitative data
- multidisciplinary research
- perform market research
- perform public relations
- political economy
- political science
- politics
- religious studies
- social network analysis
- spatial planning
- study cultures
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- teach sociology
- write research proposals
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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