Summarized notes of chapter :Sociology of Education in the prescribed book.
Notes are simplified, colour-coded and answers questions in SED2601 Workbook.
Effective for assignments as well as exam.
• Uses theoretical perspectives and rigorous research, to provide
important insights into ways that schools affect individuals and groups
• Concerned with relationships, activities and reactions of teachers and
learners in the classroom
• Emphasizes sociological problems in education realm
Sociology:
• Term: first use by French philosopher Auguste Comte (1843)
• Studies: social groups, individuals and their interrelationships with social
structures
We see the world in terms of what is everyday and familiar to us-
friends, family, schools, workplace
• Helps us to think ourselves away from familiar routines and to look at
them with fresh eyes
• Teaches us to question what we think is ‘natural’ and what we take for
granted in society and everyday practices
Is it natural for girls and boys to line up separately in schools or is this
practice shaped by society?
• Does not only collect facts (school has 10 classes)
• Sociologists want to know
WHY CERTAIN THINGS HAPPEN IN SOCIETY ?
We have coexistence of well-equipped schools and less privileged
schools.
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, DEFINITION:
• The study of human behaviours as they are affected by SOCIAL
INTERACTIONS amongst groups, organizations, societies and the world.
• In interactions, parties involved form SYSTEMS FOR SOCIAL
INTERACTIONS
• Involves the study of social factors (ideas, feelings and ways of
behaving): they persist over time (imposed on everyone in a society)
Durkheim:
• Sociology is the study of systems that should be investigated as a whole
and cannot be comprehended by examining the individual parts in
isolation.
Factor: individual born into society can die, but system will continue
operating
Education:
• Term: Latin word educere (to bring out that is within)
- Schofield (1999):
• Act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge
• Developing powers of reasoning and judgment
• Preparing individuals intellectually for matured life
− Dhiman (2008):
• Not a static phenomenon, but dynamic and ever-changing process
− Siyakwazi & Siyakwazi (1999):
• Serves as form of socialization
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