Whats the point in degrees in sociology/philosophy?

I do and i belive that if you want to do a degree for self enrichment/not to grow up/ to have alot of fun for 3 years then you should not recieve any gouverment help as you provide no benefit for your time at uni.

Philosophy teaches you to think, no?
For most non degree specific jobs surely it should be about as useful as a science or maths degree?

There are very few jobs to which sociology or philosophy can be applied too. The argument that you can become a sociology teacher or lecturer seems pretty self defeating.
There seems to be no benefit to future employers and i belive that the time could be better spent at an aprentiship or doing on the job training.

Surely a degree in enginering would be able to teach you to think rationally and would help you suceed in a career path alot more as it involves alot more pratical and real world thinking.

Equally with sociology i imagine it is good to have a few people who are able ot have opions on how society works. whats the point in having thousands of people who know the same amount about how society works?

How sad that in a supposed developed nation such a pathetic utilitarian view of education is not only thought but that the person proposing it doesn't feel utterly embarrassed putting the view in the public domain. There are vocational degrees that are utterly redundant these days. For instance the UK produces more accountants each year than the rest of europe put together. How many accountants does a country need?

Im hopping to study economics and mathmatics at wariwck(firm) or bristol (insurance)

nope, a degree in engineering teaches you to think mathematically.....rationality is a different thing.

You dont even know what philosophy is do you? 99 % of it could be defined as 'real world thinking'.

What about jobs that arent practical?

The point of having thousands of people who all know how society works is because there are hundreds and thousands of people who work in (and for)society.

Do you by any chance take a philosophy degree, i promised not to turn this into a slanging match but when you come out with pretentious stuff like this i find it difficult. I imagine you think the education is very important and make you somehow better than uneducated people. I hope I never have to sit next to you at a dinner party.

Do you by any chance take a philosophy degree, i promised not to turn this into a slanging match but when you come out with pretentious stuff like this i find it difficult. I imagine you think the education is very important and make you somehow better than uneducated people. I hope I never have to sit next to you at a dinner party.

Using your narrow utilitarian approach please justify your study of economics. The best you can hope to be is a parisitic economist, not actually producing anything but fiddling with figures.

I was wondering what the point in doing degrees that have no real application in the real world. I understand that some people maybe intrested/good at these subjects but is there any point in the gouverment paying towards people doing these degrees and is not a waste of 3+ years. Sociology and philosophy were just the first degrees I could think of but I beleive there are lots of other pointless degrees out there.

No because maths and science is alot more complicated also you actually get to learn about actual real life things and help to research genuine work.