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Schooling
MAJOR THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN
instruction in school : EDUCATION THE SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
training, guidance, or discipline derived FUNCTIONALIST THEORY (structural –
from experience functionalism, consensus, or equilibrium)
the cost of instruction and maintenance at
school PROPONENT- Talcott Parson
the training of a horse for service MAJOR CONCEPTS
especially : the teaching and exercising of - Focuses on the positive functions
horse and rider in the formal techniques of performed by the education system
equitation such as creating social solidarity,
teaching skills necessary for work,
teaching core values, and role
Sociology allocation.
- Starts with the assumption that
It is the study of the relationships between education is an institution, to facilitate
people living in groups, especially in the stability of society which
industrial societies. emphasizes interconnectedness by
It is a social science that studies human focusing on how each part is
societies, their interactions, and the influenced by the other.
processes that preserve and change - Happens through passing on society’s
them. It does this by examining the culture through which a new
dynamics of constituent parts of societies generation of children acquire the
such as institutions, communities, ‘central’ norms, values and culture of
populations, and gender, racial, or age their society.
groups. IMPLICATION TO EDUCATION
It also studies social status or - Established relationship between
stratification, social movements, and schools, institutions and society which
social change, as well as societal disorder must fulfill necessary societal functions
to produce stability.
in the form of crime, deviance, and
- Education needs to be systematic as a
revolution. whole to avoid being non-operational.
- School’s main function is to prepare
students to acquire basic knowledge,
Sociology of Education skills, and values for future
employment.
- Basic functions of school for - Students are labeled to be achievers
socialization: teaching children to and non-achievers according to their
become members of society; teaching status in society.
children to be productive members of - Those who are more privileged to
society; selection and training of have better resources for learning and
individuals for positions in the society, achieving more are given what they
and promoting change and innovation.
really need to develop their skills and
be competent, while, those who are
not capable or less fortunate ones are
not given the right learning
CONFLICT THEORY opportunities that limit their abilities to
what they are only provided with.
PROPONENT- Karl Marx and Weber Marx SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONIST
MAJOR CONCEPTS MAJOR CONCEPTS
- Focuses on issues of contention, - Focuses on how people share
power, and inequality, highlighting the symbols and construct society as a
competition for scarce resources; result of their everyday interactions.
focuses on culture as a social product. - Examines what teachers and students
- It questions the functionalists “do” in school; they question even the
pertaining to the assumptions that most commonplace, taking for granted
schools are ideologically and politically actions and interactions, things most
neutral and that school functions are people do not question.
based on the merit that each learner - Uses cultural symbols, such as words
has the capacity to efficiently improve and non-verbal body language and
his or her own Focuses on issues of gestures during interaction. Through
contention, power, and inequality, this process, people develop a sense
highlighting the competition for scarce of self and create a reality with others.
resources; focuses on culture as a IMPLICATION TO EDUCATION
social product. - Focuses on how people share
- It questions the functionalists symbols and construct society as a
pertaining to the assumptions that result of their everyday interactions.
schools are ideologically and politically - Examines what teachers and students
neutral and that school functions are “do” in school; they question even the
based on the merit that each learner most commonplace, taking for granted
has the capacity to efficiently improve actions and interactions, things most
his or her own ability to meet the people do not question.
demands and standards of the society. - Uses cultural symbols, such as words
- Believe that the educational system and non-verbal body language and
reinforces and perpetuates social gestures during interaction. Through
inequalities that arise from differences this process, people develop a sense
in class, gender, race, and ethnicity. of self and create a reality with others.
- Marx contended that schools give a
false set of ideas and beliefs to
students in terms of education quality. SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION:
Many believe that there is equality and CONTEMPORARY THEORIES
chance of having quality education.
IMPLICATION TO EDUCATION CULTURAL CAPITAL THEORY
- Society’s competing groups the
PROPONENT- Pierre Bourdieu
“haves” and the “have-nots,” were in a
constant state of tension, which could CONCEPTS
lead to the possibility of struggle. - It refers to cultural practices, including
- Quality education has a set of dress and mannerisms, language
standards of what is acceptable to be patterns and expressions, and
at its. This gives the notion that knowledge of the world derived from
inequality in terms of what they may life experiences such as visits to
become and could get from their work museums, all of which provide
is also expected. knowledge of class culture of the
school.
IMPLICATION TO EDUCATION
- Delved into education’s influence on pay more attention to the situation of
stratification and social class, trying to women.
reconcile the influences of social IMPLICATION TO EDUCATION
structures on the subjective - Led to the examination of educational
experiences of individuals. policy and how it affected girls,
- Used by schools to reproduce women, their future opportunities.
inequality both in the interactions and
in the structure of education.
SOCIETY AND SCHOOL: IT’S LINKAGE
SCHOOL
Old English: scol - "place of instruction
Latin: schola - "intermission of work,
leisure for learning; learned conversation,
debate, lecture, meeting place for
teachers and students, place of
instruction; disciples of a teacher, body of
followers, sect,"
Greek: shole- "spare time, leisure, rest,
ease; idleness; that in which leisure is
employed; learned discussion," also "a
place for lectures, school."
is defined as an educational institution
designed to provide learning spaces and
learning environments for the teaching of
students under the supervision of
teachers.
A school is an institution created to
enhance the processes of socialization
and education. It builds the personality of