Educational Sociology.

1. AH
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MOST MERCIFUL,
THE MOST BENEFICENT AND THE MOST
GRACIOUS
UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, LAHORE
(LOWER MALL CAMPUS)
B.Ed. (Hons.)
2016-20
Foundation of
Education

2. TOPIC:
EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
Presenters:
Shaharyar Shoukat &Hadeeqa Tanveer

3. CONTENT
• Objectives:
• What is Sociology?
• Definition of Society:
• Meaning of Sociology
& Concept or
Definitions:
• SOCIALIZATION
• Aims of sociology in
education:
• Importance of
Sociology in
Curriculum
Development:
• Sociological
curriculum
• Relationship between
Education and
Sociology:
• Sociology of
Education vs.
Educational Sociology
• Sociology of
Education:
• THE SCOPE OF
SOCIOLOGY OF
EDUCATION:
• The Role of Sociology
of Education
• References:

4. OBJECTIVES:
• By the end of this topic, you should be able to:
• Define Sociology as a concept
• Explain the meaning of Education
• Discuss the functions of Sociology.
• Establish the relationship between Education and Society
• Give an operational definition of Sociology of Education

5. WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY?
• The term SOCIOLOGY, was first used in 1780 by a French
essayist named Emmanuel Joseph
Sieyès (1748 - 1836) in an unpublished manuscript.
• Later, the word was used by a French thinker named Auguste
Comte.

6. DEFINITION OF SOCIETY:
• A society is a group of people with common territory (Area),
interaction, and culture.
• The term society can also have a geographic meaning and refer
to people who share a common culture in a particular location.

7. MEANING OF SOCIOLOGY & CONCEPT OR
DEFINITIONS:
• The word Sociology derived from the combination of Latin word
Socius meaning ‘Companion’ and Greek word logos meaning ‘The
Study ’. So the literally meaning of sociology the study of
Companionship or Social relationship.
• Study of the origin, Development, Organization, and functioning of
human society.
• It is the science of fundamental laws of social behavior, relation and
Institutions, etc.

8. • Sociology is the study of human social relationship and
institutions. Sociology’s subject matter is diverse, turning from
crime to religion, from the family to the state, from the
divisions of race and social class to the shared beliefs of a
common culture, and from social stability to radical change in
whole societies.
• Is the study of societies and how humans act in groups?
• Sociology is a social science.
• People who study sociology are called sociologists.
• It is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social
relationships, social interaction, and culture.

9. Sociology Specifically Seeks
To:
• Explain the causes of human
behaviors;
• Recognize the patterns of
human behaviors
• Predict the future
behaviors of people
• SOCIALIZATION
Socialization is the process
whereby an individual learns to
appreciate the meaning and values
that exist in the culture at large
and eventually internalizes such
beliefs and values as guides for
human conduct.

10. AIMS OF SOCIOLOGY IN EDUCATION:
• Development of social
feelings and qualities.
• Development of a socially
efficient individual.
• Improvement of social
heritage.
• Transmission of social
heritage.
• Diffusion of more and
more knowledge.
• Development of
constructive and creative
outlook of individual.
• Use of leisure time and
development of healthy
recreational pursuits.
• Education for social
service, social efficiency
emotional integration
rational unity.

11. IMPORTANCE OF SOCIOLOGY IN CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT:
• Sociology studies role of the institutions in the development of the
individuals
• Study of sociology is indispensable for understanding and planning
of society
• Sociology is of great importance in the solution of social problems
• Sociology has drawn our attention to the intrinsic worth and dignity
of man
• Sociology has changed our outlook with regard to the problems of
crime

12. SOCIOLOGICAL CURRICULUM
• Based on conditions, problems and needs of society.
• An agent for transmission of basic values of culture.
• Prepare the child for global society.
• Flexible and changeable for the effective realization of society
determined objectives.
• Lead development to genuine we feel.

13. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND
SOCIOLOGY:
• Sociology is the science of society
and education in an implicit
aspect of any social system.
• Sociology studies the structure
and functions of social systems,
while education is one of the
important functions of any social
system.
• Education is the means for
achieving the goals of sociology.
• Education is the laboratory and
workshop of sociology.
• Sociology develops methods and
techniques to be utilized by
educational system to attain its
goals.
• Sociology contributes greatly to
the planning, execution,
monitoring and evaluation of
educational process.

14. WHAT IS EDUCATION?
• “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than
what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to
think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of
other men”.(Bill Beattie)
According to a philosopher of education George F. Kneller (1941),
education is:
• “In its broad sense, education refers to any act or experience that has
formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an
individual.

15. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND
SOCIOLOGY
• Emile Durkheim was the first person who indicated the need for a
sociological approach to education.
• He considered education –
“to be essentially social in character and in its functions and that as
a result the theory of education relates more clearly to sociology
than any other science”.
• To the sociologist, education takes place in the society and is a
social thing. Durkheinn (1950) argued that:
“It is society as a whole and each particular social milieu that
determine the ideal that education realizes

16. SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION VS. EDUCATIONAL
SOCIOLOGY
• There appeared to be confusion as to what the proper
dimensions of educational sociology should be.
• There were differences of opinion regarding what
types of researches are to be classified under the
heading of educational sociology.
• This led to the thinking that there should be a
separate branch of knowledge which can be
designated as sociology of education.

17. • The Sociology of Education is dominated by tension
between:
1-Those who regard it as a science, and those
who see it as an applied and policy-related discipline,
2-The empirical (the study of education
scientifically as it is) and the normative (the study of it
in terms of what it ought to be).
• Those who saw the discipline as an objective science
used the label “Sociology of Education,” and those who
saw it in policy and reform terms used the label

18. • Sociology of Education depicts an analysis of the sociological
processes involved in the educational institution.
• It emphasizes the study within the institution of education.
• Educational Sociology is the application of general principles
and findings of sociology to the administration and processes
of education.
• The approach means the application of sociology to the institution of
education as a separate societal unit.

19. • The terms Educational Sociology and Sociology of Education are
used in the discipline as approaches to the two extremes.
• Educational Sociology would imply an emphasis upon
educational and social questions, while
• Sociology of Education emphasizes sociological problems in the
realm of education which is the concern of sociologists.
• However, in the contemporary world, Sociology of Education is
commonly in use

20. SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION:
• The sociology of education is the study of how public
institutions and individuals experiences affect education and its
outcomes (Corwin, 1965).
• According to Marshall (1998), in sociology of education we are
very much concerned with public schooling systems of modern
industrial societies including the expansion of higher, further,
adult, and continuing education.

21. The sociology of education is the study
of how public institutions and
individual experiences
affect education and its outcomes. It is
mostly concerned with the public
schooling systems of modern
industrial societies, including the
expansion of higher, further, adult,
and continuing education.
• Stress on Professional or vocational
Education
• Opposition to Individualism
• Social Progress as the aim of
Education
• Classification of Social problems:
• Raising the Standard of Social life
• ion as an agency of Social progress:
• Importance to Social life in the
school:

22. THE SCOPE OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION:
• Mutual relations of teacher and students.
• The place of a teacher in society.
• Social problems, needs and aspirations.
• Small units of society and their interrelations.
• School and its relations with local social institutions.
• Effect of social life upon individuals and school.
• Progress of democratic feelings in school.

23. THE ROLE OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
• It is concerned with such general concepts
such as society itself,culture, community,
class, environment, socialization,
internalization, accommodation,
assimilation, cultural lag, subculture,
status, role and so forth.
• It is further involved in cases of education
and social class, state, social force, cultural
change, various problems of role structure,
role analysis in relation to the total social
system and the micro society of the school
such as authority, selection, and the
organization of learning, streaming,
curriculum and so forth.
• It deals with analysis of educational
situations in various geographical and
ethnological contexts. E.g. Educational
situations in rural, urban and tribal areas, in
different parts of the country/world, with
the background of different races, cultures
etc.
• It helps us to understand the effectiveness
of different educational methods in
teaching students with different kinds of
intelligences.

24. • It studies the effect of economy upon the
type of education provided to the
students. E.g. Education provided in IB,
ICSE, SSC, Municipal schools
• It helps us to understand the effect of
various social agencies like family, school
on the students.
• It studies the relationship between social
class, culture, language, parental
education, occupation and the
achievement of the students
• It studies the role and structure of
school, peer group on the personality of
the students
• It provides an understanding of the
problems such as racism, it studies the
• It suggests ways to develop national
integration, international understanding,
the spirit of scientific temper,
globalization among the students
• It promotes research studies related to
planning, organization and application of
various theories in education.
• Emphasizing the function of educational
community in society.
• The social relationship between the
school and other aspects of the
community.
• The patterns of social interaction and
social roles within the school community.
• The relation of personalities the school
to outside the group.

25. REFERENCES:
• Tamayao, A. (2013). Social Dimensions of Education. Rex Book Store.
Duka C. et al ( 2014). Introduction to Sociology: A Filipino
Perspective.
• Anvil Publishing.
• Giddens A. et al (2009). Introduction to Sociology. W. W. Norton &
Company, Inc.
• Saha, L. (2008). “Sociology of Education. “ 21st Century Education: A
• Reference Handbook. Sage Publications.
• Bilbao, P. P., Lucido, P. I., Iringan, T. C., and R. B. Javier (2008).
Curriculum development. Quezon City: Lorimar Publishing, Inc.

26. Any
Questions?