- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who studies phenomena of political behavior, such as origin, development, operation, and interrelationships of political institutions, to formulate and develop political theory. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts research into political philosophy and theories of political systems, utilizing information available on political phenomena, such as governmental institutions, public laws and administration, political party systems, and international law.
* Consults with government officials, civic bodies, research agencies, and political parties.
* Analyzes and interprets results of studies, and prepares reports detailing findings, recommendations or conclusions.
* May organize and conduct public opinion surveys and interpret results.
* May specialize in specific geographical, political, or philosophical aspect of political behavior.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who specializes in reconstruction in narrative form of career or phase in life of individual. Responsibilities include:
* Assembles biographical material from sources, such as news accounts, diaries, personal papers and correspondence, written accounts of events in which subject participated, and consultation with associates and relatives of subject.
* Portrays character and behavior of subject on basis of historical environment and application of psychological analysis, relating subject's activities to pertinent events during subject's lifetime (writer, prose, fiction and nonfiction).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities of state historical society. Responsibilities include:
* Directs and coordinates activities of research staff.
* Reviews publications and exhibits prepared by staff prior to public release in order to ensure historical accuracy of presentations.
* Speaks before various groups, organizations, and clubs to promote society aims and activities.
* Consults with or advises other individuals on historical authenticity of various materials.
* Conducts historical research on subjects or topics of import to society.
* Performs administrative duties, such as budget preparation, employee evaluation, and program planning.
* May edit society publications.
* May conduct campaigns to raise funds for society programs and projects.
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A professional who conducts research into genealogical background of individual or family in order to establish descent from specific ancestor or to discover and identify forebears of individual or family. Responsibilities include:
* Consults American and foreign genealogical tables and publications and documents, such as church and court records, for evidence of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and legacies in order to trace lines of descent or succession.
* Constructs chart showing lines of descent and family relationships.
* Prepares history of family in narrative form or writes brief sketches emphasizing points of interest in family background.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares in narrative, brief, or outline form chronological account or record of past or current events dealing with some phase of human activity, either in terms of individuals, or social, ethnic, political, or geographic groupings. Responsibilities include:
* Assembles historical data by consulting sources of information, such as historical indexes and catalogs, archives, court records, diaries, news files, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials.
* Organizes and evaluates data on basis of authenticity and relative significance.
* Acts as adviser or consultant, and performs research for individuals, institutions, and commercial organizations on subjects, such as technological evolution within industry or manners and customs peculiar to certain historical period.
* May trace historical development within restricted field of research, such as economics, sociology, or philosophy.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts research to authenticate details, such as customs, costumes, manners of speech, architectural styles, modes of transportation, and other items peculiar to given historical period or specific locality, to avoid anachronisms and inaccuracies in presentation of stage or radio dramas or motion pictures. Reads written historical texts and documents and pictorial material in libraries and museums, consults experts or witnesses of historical events, and visits and observes peculiarities of areas to be used as locale of drama to procure information.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities of motion picture or television production research department, and conducts research on various subjects to ensure historical authenticity of productions. Responsibilities include:
* Researches specific period, locality or historical event to obtain authentic background for production, such as customs, speech characteristics, or dress, and architectural style of era.
* Advises members of production staff on matters relating to historical details of subject being photographed or recorded.
* Reviews and collects data, such as books, pamphlets, periodicals, and rare newspapers, to provide source material for research.
* Approves or recommends purchase of library reference materials for department, and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cataloging and filing materials.
* May translate or request translation of reference materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, organizes, and conducts research for use in understanding social problems and for planning and carrying out social welfare programs. Responsibilities include:
* Develops research designs on basis of existing knowledge and evolving theory.
* Constructs and tests methods of data collection.
* Collects information and makes judgments through observation, interview, and review of documents.
* Analyzes and evaluates data.
* Writes reports containing descriptive, analytical, and evaluative content.
* Interprets methods employed and findings to individuals within agency and community.
* May direct work of statistical clerks, statisticians, and others.
* May collaborate with research workers in other disciplines.
* May be employed in voluntary or governmental social welfare agencies, community welfare councils, and schools of social work.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts research into development, structure, and behavior of groups of human beings and patterns of culture and social organization which have arisen out of group life in society. Collects and analyzes scientific data concerning social phenomena, such as community, associations, social institutions, ethnic minorities, social classes, and social change. May teach sociology, direct research, prepare technical publications, or act as consultant to lawmakers, administrators, and other officials dealing with problems of social policy. May specialize in research on relationship between criminal law and social order in causes of crime and behavior of criminals and be designated Criminologist. May specialize in research on punishment for crime and control and prevention of crime, management of penal institutions, and rehabilitation of criminal offenders and be designated Penologist. May specialize in research on group relationships and processes in an industrial organization and be designated Industrial Sociologist. May specialize in research on rural communities in contrast with urban communities and special problems occasioned by impact of scientific and industrial revolutions on rural way of life and be designated Rural Sociologist. May specialize in research on interrelations between physical environment and technology in spatial distribution of people and their activities and be designated Social Ecologist. May specialize in research on social problems arising from individual or group deviation from commonly accepted standards of conduct, such as crime and delinquency, or social problems and racial discrimination rooted in failure of society to achieve its collective purposes and be designated Social Problems Specialist. May specialize in research on origin, growth, structure, and demographic characteristics of cities and social patterns and distinctive problems that result from urban environment and be designated Urban Sociologist. May specialize in research on social factors affecting health care, including definition of illness, patient and practitioner behavior, social epidemiology, and delivery of health care, and be designated Medical Sociologist. May plan and conduct demographic research, surveys, and experiments to study human populations and affecting trends and be designated Demographer II.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops and implements corrective procedures to alleviate group dysfunctions. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with individuals and groups to determine nature of group dysfunction.
* Observes group interaction and interviews group members to identify problems related to factors such as group organization, authority relationships, and role conflicts.
* Develops approaches to solution of group's problems, based on findings and incorporating sociological research and study in related disciplines.
* Develops intervention procedures, utilizing techniques such as interviews, consultations, role playing, and participant observation of group interaction, to facilitate resolution of group problems.
* Monitors group interaction and role affiliations to evaluate progress and to determine need for additional change.
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