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In reply to the discussion: LUV capitalism!!! Study shows hyper-sexualization of women by the media has increased 10 fold... [View all]Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)But many (if not most) of today's jobs don't require any particular curriculum from a university as a prerequisite. Knowing differential equations and real analysis isn't any more relevant to these jobs than knowing how to conduct and publish sociology research (which you don't really learn as an undergrad, anyway).
Studying engineering is usually a means of starting a career track as an engineer. Majoring in sociology is usually NOT a means of starting a career track to becoming an academic who studies hyper-sexualization in Rolling Stone covers. It's a means of learning how to read, write, and think critically while studying something that you enjoy. That can lead you to any number of different careers, again most of which don't require any particular university curriculum as a pre-requisite.
The fact that China and India are producing more engineers is only a problem if the demand for engineers is higher than the amount of engineers we're producing.
If our society needs more engineering work being done than is currently being done (and IMO it does to some extent) then I would suggest that we look at the demand factor rather than the supply factor. Maybe more people would major in engineering than in sociology if we'd start spending money on infrastructure and other problems that require engineers to fix.