urgent course advice needed - brutal advice

Ok so I am in a huge predicament. I am studying a sociology & social policy degree right now and I do really love policy but I feel like the course gets such a bad rep because of 'sociology' that I feel may not be respected by employers. And before ANYONE says, I have no interest in taking a degree that leads to a career (dentistry, accountancy, law etc..). I want to also change to a social science bsc because I'd have more access to placements and policy from the modules, but idk if that would be worse to take...

what should I do!!!

What year are you in? Does your current uni offer Social Science BSc? Have you spoken with anyone at the uni about switching, so see whether you'd need to drop back to first year? Or would you be planning to switch uni too? There are obviously funding issues (depending on what year you're in right now).

oh whoops I completely clocked I didn't offer any background info haha. I'm in first year and I did talk to my tutor about switching; she said id be able to switch at the end of the year and continue onto second year since all social science degrees take the same core modules but differ in optional. I wouldn't plan to switch uni I quite like the one im in currently. All that aside, the main problem is which has a better rep....

Well, that sounds like the perfect sort of switch to me. Same uni. No repeat of year. No funding issues. So it's a straight "Should I do course A or course B?" question.

What made you opt for Sociology and Social Policy over Social Science in the first place?

You worry that a sociology course "may not be respected by employers." What sort of employers are you thinking of? (I don't want to ask about career ambitions, as you "have no interest in taking a degree that leads to a career". )

well even though I did just say that I didn't want a degree with an automatic career, I see myself taking a masters that will benefit my career and THEN lead into it. Considering all my current interests, this course seemed to be the most appropriate and after researching various masters degrees that I could take, each one either said 'no specific degree needed' or 'social science degree preferable such as economics, sociology or policy.' I guess I didn't take social science because I heard (ik don't believe everything you hear) is more general and I would find a hard time saying what it acc encapsulated, but now there are days where I think I should've taken it?
In terms of employers, they are primarily health, media or environmental