EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Who said that “Educational sociology is the study of those phases of sociology that are of significance for educative processes, specially the study of those that point to valuable programmers of learning and control of learning processes”? (d) T.P. Munn.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to Brown, “Educational Sociology is the study of the interaction of the individual and his cultural environment including other individuals, social groups and patterns of behaviour."

Detailed explanation-3: -Educational sociology focuses attention on the social factors that both cause and are caused by education. It includes the study of factors relating to education, such as gender, social class, race and ethnicity, and rural–urban residence.

Detailed explanation-4: -This science emphasizes the progress of the society through medium of education. The educational sociology also tries to search a suitable solution for problems related to society and education.

Detailed explanation-5: -Briefly, sociology of education is defined as a study of the relations between education and society. It is an investigation of the sociological processes involved in an educational institution. To Ottaway (1962), it is a social study and in so far as its method is scientific, it is a branch of social science.