Labour requests for Social Sciences

A look at sociology and social work

Abstract

This article aims to describe some of the requirements of the Chilean labor market for professions in the social sciences, particularly sociology and social work. On the understood that professions are dynamic, interact with each other and influence each other, trying to keep their labor jurisdictions and add new ones, empirical research framed in the explanatory paradigm with quantitative and qualitative approach was developed for current trends in the overlapping professional boundaries between these professions. So after reviewing notices of job offers, and survey employers, sociologists and social workers practicing and interviewed the latter, one can conclude that both professions together in the field of direct social intervention, referring sharing requirements time and type of experience; the level of education; and skills required by the labor market. From this reality, institutions of higher education in the country and the Chilean State bodies competent in this area, are urged to regulate the supply of training for social workers, and define an urgent, concrete and comprehensive manner, labor camps, and occupational performance areas of each of these careers profiles, this with the aim of having paid professionals sitting and integrated and the necessary social cohesion of the country.