Introduction to Sociology of Education

Sociology

What is Sociology? What is Education?

Sociology Vs Psychology

Relationship between sociology and education?

What science do with sociology??

To explain why something happen To make generalization: broader group or situation Look at patterns, recurring characteristics and events Predict: future

January 1798September 1857 French philosopher Montpellier, South France Sociologys daddy Positivism

Science of sociology should be based on systematic observations and classification, the same principles that governed the study of the natural sciences.

April 1820 December 1903 English philosopher

Social evolution

Evolution=Darwi n

There exist a gradual evolution of society from the primitive to the industrial.

May 1818March 1883

Anticapitalist

Germany philosopher/revolution ary socialist

May 1818March 1883

All societies are made up of two basic classes that are in constant opposition those who own or control the means of production and those who do not.

April 1858 November 1917

French sociologist

Suicide

Functionalism

Societies were bound together by the commonly shared beliefs and values of their members.

April 1864 June 1920

German sociologist

sociologists should be value free, never allowing personal biases to influence either their research or their conclusions

June 1841 April 1913 American

In 1883, Lester Ward, an American, published Dynamic Sociology In this work he advocated social progress through social action guided by sociologists

PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

CASE STUDIES

SURVEYS

CONTROLLED LABORATORY STUDIES

SECOND ANALYSIS

One common way to collect data

Researcher usually lives within the group

PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

The goal is to gain a deep understanding

Usually some sort of subculture group

- Are very common in medical research and psychology research -to used this research method, it need two groups such as: @experiment group @control group

- most commonly used tool in sociological research - this research method can be used whether in form:
questionnaire interview Telephone poll

Is the use of data that collected by someone else for some other purpose. When using a secondary data in an analysis , some important thing that must be done beforehand. Such as become familiar with the data set..

Sense in which virtually every activity that we associate with sociology

MAJOR THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIOLOGY...

Introduced by Emile Durkheim (1858-1917). The various parts of society are interdependent and functionally related to each other. These parts include groups, organizations and institutions of society : family, religion, education, politics, economics and health.

All parts complement each other, and the assumption is that a smooth-running, stable system is well integrated. Functionalist see change in systems as helping the system continually adapt to new circumstances.
Change is seen as a slow, deliberate and planned process that does not upset the balance of the system.

Functional research concerns about the structure and functioning of the organizations.
But, functionalism has several problems.
I. Fails to recognize divergent interests, ideologies and conflicting group values. II. Difficulty of analyzing interactions. III. Built-in assumption in functional theory regarding change.

Groups in society are always competing with each other in order to achieve their goals. Havens and have-nots Assumes a tension in society and its parts created by the competing interests of individuals and groups.

Bourgeois - the wealthy, powerful people who own the factories, the farmland, and just about everything else.

Proletariat - the people who dont own much and are forced to work for the bourgeois to feed their families.

Conflict

Social system are unstable due to this power conflict and are likely to change rapidly.

1) Focuses on individuals in interaction with each other ( micro-level).

2) Those with the same culture interpret and define social situations similarly thus creating norm.

Rational choice theory

Labeling theory