Lecture 02 – Education and Different aspects of Society

Main Objectives

You will be able to

1. To enable the students understand the relation of Education
with society.
2. To enable the students understand social functions of
Education
3. To enable the students explain sociological Aspects of
Education.
4. To enable the students establish relationship of Sociology
and education.

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Background
1. " Education is the Socialization of the younger generation
"-Durkhim

2. "Educational Sociology is the application of scientific

spirit, methods and principles of sociology to the study of
education"-M.S. Gore

3. Educational sociology is sociology applied to the solution

of fundamental educational problems"- Roucek

4. According to Comte, different components of society are

scientifically studied in
sociology

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Background

In our view, there is a close correlation between changes, in

the socio-economic-environment and the structures and
forms of action of education, which we believe makes a
functional contribution to historical movement. Moreover it
seems to us that through the knowledge it provides of the
environment in which it operates, education may help society
to become aware of its problems.

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Social Functions of Education

1. Socialization
2. Development of Personality
3. Social Control
4. Social Integration
5. Determination of Status
6. Provides Route for Social Mobility
7. Social Development

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Socialization

Socialization is the process by which children learn the ways

of their society and make these ways part of their own
personality

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Agent of child socialization

1. Family
2. School
3. Religion
4. Mass Media
5. Games and Sport
6. Peer Groups

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Sociological Aspects of Education
First: Learning is a creative experience when a man responds to stimulate he acts
in a creative manner. In other words education is a creative act for the learner.

Second: Education is of two ways of learning such as informal education and

formal education

Third: Formal education is a socially devised technique, a highly elaborated

procedure for creating situations in which the pupil may learn individuals go
through formal education only a short period of their life.

Fourth: Education is both the living of life (in the network of social relationship in
the classroom and outside) and a preparation for life

Fifth: Education involves (a) mastery of the tools of learning such as reading
writing arithmetic an (b) mastery of our relations to our inner self, to our
neighbour to the universe

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Education and Different Aspects of Society
Man is a social animal. He cannot maintain his existence without
society so he creates society.

The aim of the society is very extensive instead of being limited and
there is a feeling of stability in this aim.

Society has its own ideals. It is the duty of every member to

preserve it.

Responsibility of education of the child lies on both state and

society. In the social system of a country like Russia, the state
shoulders the entire responsibility of the education of the child.

Family, school, assemblies and state are different units of the

society. All these have their impact on the child.

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Features of Sociology of Education
Sociology of education is conceived as a branch of pure discipline of
sociology, not of education.

Sociology of education is not a technology of education ( Brookover)

The sociologist of education starts his analysis from the point of view of
the society as a whole, while the educational sociologist starts with the
school and expands his analysis outward (Mercers and Carr).

Sociology of education is concerned with the relationship between

education and society (Hensen).

Sociology of education would be an essential component of the effort

toward general empirical theory, while an Educational Sociology would be
an essential part of the effort to establish action prescriptions and
normative theory (Hensen)

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Features of Sociology of Education

It will not include all of sociology simply because sociology is good training for
teachers.

It is not technology of education. That is, it is not applied sociology

Sociology of education is the scientific analysis of the educational system.

Any adequate sociology of education must present hypothesis concerning such

human relation which will provide the body of theory to be tested in research.

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