EDUCATION UGC NET
EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
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Educates the child for citizenship
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Ensures desirable socialisation of the child
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Enables the individual to find a job for himself
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Ensures the development of child’s potentialities
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Detailed explanation-1: -It is implied in the “Social nature” of education that it (a) Ensures desirable socialisation of the child. (b) Ensures the development of child’s potentialities. (c) Educates the child for citizenship. (d) Enables the individual to find a job for himself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Together with other social forces it plays an important role in shaping the structure of society. Through education society imparts its knowledge, skill, values and behavioural patterns to its younger generations. Thereby ensuring self preservation and continuity. In this sense education is a process of socialization.
Detailed explanation-3: -Education for Durkheim was “the means by which society perpetually re-creates the conditions of its very existence” and it involved “a systematic socialisation of the young generation” (Durkheim quoted in Thompson 1982: 161).
Detailed explanation-4: -The socialization functions in education can be defined as availability for work and an ability to make decisions independently so that the individual in his later life period could perform his social roles and integrate in social structures with specific role types.