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Summarized notes of chapter: Practices in Sociology (Social Institutions, ecology and the role of school in society) in the prescribed book.
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Chapter 5: Practices in Sociology:
Social Institutions, ecology and the role of school in the society
Introduction
− School and society are interdependent
− Society established schools in order to provide education to its members
Schools:
− Function according to needs and cultural backgrounds of society
− Acts as agencies of social modification and social control: ‘ as is
the society, so is the school’
Role of School in Society
Saldanha
• Transmit culture
• Transfer skills and values
• Agents of socialization
• Reflect qualities of society
• Execute goals and methods decided by society (which is a dynamic
entity)
• Seek co-operation of society and initiate two-way traffic activities by
eradicating illiteracy amongst adults etc.
• Reshape society to fit in with ever-changing societal environment
Leading Theoretical Frameworks within Sociology of Education
• Functionalism
• Critical Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism
,Questions to be argued:
− How do these three theories help us to understand educational systems
and how schools function?
− What is the ideal role of the school as social institution in regulating
society?
− Do we really expect our school systems to prepare our children for the
future or are our expectations of the role of the school unrealistic?
− Dos it not take a nation to raise a child?
, Social Institutions
5 Prominent Social Institutions
− Contributes to overall functioning and stability of society
− Understood as established sub-systems that satisfies the basic needs of
society
− Defines dominant social values
− Establishes patterns of social behaviour
− Supports society’s survival
− Modify roles for individuals
Doda
− Helps to decrease chaos and increase structure, therefore enabling
each institutions to fulfil its role in social modification easily.
− Different social institutions should have good relationships with each
other in order to perform well in society
− Have reciprocal impact on each other; if one goes under fundamental
changes, others will be affected
− Competition: owing to similarities in responsibilities and functions Result:
in most societies, some instructions should play a superior role to others
− Regardless degree of superiority: the is no permanency in social
institutions (their functions sometimes change)
Example:
If a certain institution fails to fulfil a special need, the other institution needs to
take the lead and fulfil that need.
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