EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Educational sociology is said to be the study of principles of sociology as applied to the theory and practice of Education. It is new science which applies sociological principles to the whole process of education.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sociology of education refers to how individuals’ experiences shape the way they interact with schooling. More specifically, the sociology of education examines the ways in which individuals’ experiences affect their educational achievement and outcomes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Systematic sociology of education began with the work of Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) on moral education as a basis for organic solidarity, and with studies by Max Weber (1864–1920) on the Chinese literati as an instrument of political control.

Detailed explanation-4: -Weber’s ideas on education highlight the relationship between power and education. They recognise the difference between education as a cultural value and education related to the pursuit of power, whether in the case of capitalist society or traditional Chinese society or in the context of his own (German) society.

Detailed explanation-5: -Functionalist sociologist Emile Durkheim saw Education as performing two major functions in advanced industrial societies – transmitting the shared values of society and simultaneously teaching the specialised skills for an economy based on a specialised division of labour.