Pertinencia académica de la carrera de Sociología-Utmach en relación a la inserción laboral de los graduados, periodo 2020-2022

Abstract

The present research explores the levels of relevance presented by the components of the curriculum project, curricular matrix, and micro curriculum and how this has affected the labour insertion of graduates of the Sociology career, therefore, the general objective was: to establish the relevance between the academic offer of the Sociology career – UTMACH and the job placement of graduates, period 2020-2022. The difficulties that sociologists present in finding employment according to their professional profile were considered. Unemployment demoralizes and generates a vicious circle where graduates are discouraged from continuing with studies, whether with master's degrees or diplomas, perceiving them as unprofitable. Likewise, the specific objectives focus on determining the curricular planning characteristics for the student’s professional formation of the Sociology degree, identifying the job placement opportunities that graduates have, and establishing the relevant management strategies for the job insertion of the graduates. Besides, it should be mentioned that the sociological foundation is Structural Functionalism, which understands educational institutions and student groups as social systems that participate in the same environment, differentiating themselves to work in specific functions. Regarding the epistemological approach of the study, it was empirical inductive; the research is positivist, that is, it seeks to establish patterns and causal laws through the collection and analysis of data in situ; the type of study is basic with a mixed methodology, since information is collected through surveys aimed at graduates of the Sociology Degree, interviews with employers, and experts in curriculum planning and design. The result obtained in the research determines that half of the graduates do not practice the profession; their workspaces are being occupied mostly by social workers, even though the career still maintains relevance and importance in the current context, since there are problems in sociologists’ academic formation, who present weaknesses in knowledge, skills, and competencies in specific areas of the field of Sociology. Consequently, it was identified that there are problems with academic formation, along these lines a proposal was prepared with the name of “Project to strengthen specific skills, and competencies of the profession to promote the labour insertion of graduates of the sociology career of the UTMACH", which is responsible for improving the competitive profile of sociologists, through the design of training workshops so that they master the techniques, tools and increase their knowledge, which will promote them in their professional itinerary; Its sociological foundation is Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, which explains how job placement is influenced by multiple interrelated factors, including academic formation and skills acquired during higher education, constituting a systematic operation of a social nature; For its part, the specific objectives of the proposal are to design workshops to strengthen professional skills in planning and/or the design of social plans, programs, and projects that expand job placement opportunities; to promote the mastery of computer software applicable to the systematization of empirical data and theoretical contrast related to the investigation of social phenomena, with the purpose of ensuring that professionals who graduated from the Sociology degree raise their quality of professional performance in their occupational fields. This will be done with the cooperation of the Sociology major and the authors of the research.