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I am a sociologist, finishing PhD and all.
What I am going to say applies to most undergraduate careers: unless you are in the hard sciences, most people either dont work in the field they graduated in, or they go for some postgraduate education soon after.
Now, I dont want this to sound as if I am discouraging you getting a degree. College graduates do on average make significantly more money than non college graduates. But it doesnt make you instantly get a job doing what you loved in college.
With regards to careers in sociology, sociologists often are employed on research companies, marketing research divisions, human resource divisions, non profit organizations, and civil service. Without a graduate degree, more often than not these people are hired in a position where their sociological research methods training is more in demand than their theoretical training. It takes a while, and usually a graduate degree, before you can make a living doing heavy theoretical stuff.
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