Sociological Perspective of Education B.ed Notes, M.A Notes, IGNOU Notes

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The Sociological Perspective of Education:

The functional, conflict, and symbolic interactionist methods well fit the primary sociological viewpoints on education. Conceptual approaches are used by sociologists to organize and analyze the social processes explored in sociological research. Learn about the relevance of concepts and the three theoretical orientations in sociology.

What is a theory?

A theory is a description of how and why things are done or how the world actually works. Theories in sociology try to analyze why individuals and groups choose to engage in specific behaviors and how society works or evolves.

What is the importance of theory?

Theoretical approaches serve as a foundation for studying occurrences such as how individuals or groups form organizations in the social sciences such as psychology, economics, and sociology. We’d merely have a long list of specific behaviors, judgments, or categories of individuals if we didn’t have explanations, but we’d have no method of organizing the domain. Theories enable us to see overarching trends in a wide range of social activities and choices.

The theoretical perspective and its assumptions

  1. Functionalism: Education involves various processes in society. Socialization, social integration, social placement, and social and cultural development are among them. Child support, the formation of peer acceptance, and the reduction of joblessness by maintaining students out of the comprehensive workforce are all dormant activities.
  2. Conflict theory: Through the use of surveillance and assessment practices, as well as the influence of their “hidden curriculum,” education encourages social inequality. Educational financing and learning circumstances vary greatly, and this sort of disparity contributes to learning imbalances that promote socioeconomic inequality.
  3. Symbolic interactionism: This viewpoint emphasizes social contact in the classroom playground and other educational settings. According to studies, social contact in institutions has an impact on the establishment of gender stereotypes, and professors’ assumptions of students’ intellectual skills have an impact on how much they acquire.