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Wednesday, 19 February 2014

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Careers in Sociology and Social Work

Overview: 

Social work is an excellent career choice for those who care about human dignity and social justice. Social workers help people overcome social and health problems, such as poverty, mental illness, child abuse and neglect, emotional instability, illness, economic uncertainty, domestic violence, homelessness, and drug abuse. Social work education provides a formal training to people who want to pursue their career as social workers. Programme equipped graduate with the basic knowledge and skills to assist government and private agencies in the development and execution of social welfare programmes.

Where to Study:
  • Department of social work, University of Karachi, Karachi
    http://www.uok.edu.pk

    • BS in social work – 4 years
    • MS in social work – 2 years
  • Department of Social Work, University of the Punjab, Lahore
    http://www.pu.edu.pk

    • MA in Social Work - 2 years
Overview of Sociology:
Sociology studies the development, structure, and function of human society. Sociologists examine the ways in which social structures and institutions, such as class, family, community, and power influence society. The courses of sociology cover industrial sociology, gerontology and aging, urban sociology, human ecology, social demography, criminology. Sociologist may work as a criminologist, industrial sociologist, urban sociologist, Demographer, social pathologist etc

Where to Study:
  • Department of Sociology, University of Karachi, Karachi
    http://www.uok.edu.pk

    • BS in Sociology – 4 years
    • MS in Sociology– 1 - 2 years
    • MS in Criminological Science - 2 years
    • MS in Population Science– 2 years
  • Department of Sociology, University of Sindh,  Jamshoro
    http://www.usindh.edu.pk

    • BA (hons) in Sociology
    • MA in Sociology– 1 - 2 years
    • MS in Rural Development – 2 years
  • Department of Social Work, University of the Punjab, Lahore
    http://www.pu.edu.pk

    • BA (hons) in Sociology– 4 years
    • MA in Sociology– 1 - 2 years
    • MA in Population Science– 2 years
    • Ph D in Sociology - 3 years
  • Department of Social Work and Anthropology University of Peshawar, Peshawar
    http://www.upesh.edu.pk

    • MA in Sociology and Anthropology– 2 years
    • M Phil and Ph D in Sociology
  • Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan  
    http://www.bzu.edu.pk

    • MSc in Sociology - 2 years
    • M Phil in Sociology
  • National University of Modern Language, Islamabad 
    http://www.numl.edu.pk

    • M Phil in Sociology - 2 to 3 years
    • Ph D in Sociology - 3 to 5 years
Prospects:

Social Work:
Social worker provides services as a counsellor, or as a therapist, as a caseworker, or as a manager or supervisor in social service agency. Social workers work in schools, hospitals, government offices, and private agencies, public welfare agencies etc. Social worker mostly works with an NGO’s.


Sociology:
Graduates with a degree in sociology work in academic institutions, public administration, social services, criminal justice systems, and various public and private agencies.



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