i'm planning to take up law after i graduate sociology, do you think its appropriate?

Question

i am sociology student and im pretty serious with it, i'm planning to enroll in a law school after graduation, im a little confuse right now. if i did not continue taking up law, will this course land me a good job?

Answer 1

The job opportunities for law are clear-cut, well-defined and well-known; there are loads of attorneys and because you live in a litigious society there will always be demand for lawyers, so if you are good enough at it you will get a good career.

What you may want to think about at this stage is your personal ethics, and do your values march sufficiently closely with those of the law and of your culture in general (the people who will elect this century's lawmakers)?

As for sociology, you could go into training in social work and become a social worker, for example working in child support/abuse situations or for the elderly. Or you could train in psychotherapy. But this is a very idfferent kind of field. I would suggest you might want to reflect on whether you want to work fundamentally with people and relationships or with words and "the system" because social work is mostly about meing with people whereas law, though you are being paid by clients, is mostly advocacy and being able to represent someone you may or amy not like, and client contact is a much smaller part of what you are doing it is mostly paperwork and being in court. If you go into corporate law your clients are businesses not even individuals at all, you need to be able to relate but interpersonal skills are not nearly as important as in social work where it's best if you genuinely love all people including those who may seem to you indigent and lazy or out to manipulate the system.

Another question that might help your decision by looking at is: who are your heroes? Do you know about Clive Stafford Smith, for example? Look him up; if he inspires you hten law for people is perhaps your vocation. If Carl Rogers inspires you you might seriously consider counseling/psychotherapy. If Oprah Winfrey inspires you more than either, then you might prefer to stay with sociology and try to get into the media.

Answer 2

I think that is a good choice. I have a friend who was a philosophy major. He went on to law school and did well.

Answer 3

yea it would be a good back ground, knowing the whys and the wherefores about human behavior