Sociological foundations of Education :

Sociological foundations of Education :

INTRODUCTION:

Education is the social process and it has social aims and functions. Educating and society are inter related and interdependent . Society is the source as well as means of education. Without social foundati9on the education become meaningless . In this context it may have been rightly said that the education and the school are created by the society to recreate the society. Education is one of the powerful instrument and which can construct the society. In mainly way the society and education are complimentary and supplementary to each other thus, social foundation is very important .

MEANING OF SOCIOLOGY:

August comet is considered as the father of sociology. He coined the word sociology by joining two Greed words Soclus and Logos which means society and science respectively. Thus by sociology he meant the science of society. Gadding , another sociologist defines sociology as “the origin growth , structure and attitudes of the society”. Sociology is the study of society .Is is the study of social relationships of mankind, social structure and organization, the interaction of social groups, it means of social and process of social control and process of social change.

Meaning of sociology of education:

Emile Durkheim, made an early effort to provide a sociological perspective to education . He argued that education was a social thing korl momhe in saw education as one of the dopamine elements in sociology. In his well known work, ‘man and society’, he states that ‘education can society and for what social position the pupils are educated. He opined that an analysis has to be made of the social conditions under which were are living, it we are to plan a pattern of education that can create a new and better society. He brought out on intricate relationship between society and education. Education to a large extent, Is socially directed.

Social of education is an attempt to study education in the socio-cultural context. It starts it analysis with society as a whole and moves towards a general empirical theory.

R.C Angel: defines SOE as, “the scientific analysis of the social process and patterns involved in the educational system”.

Broker: Sociology of education is the scientific study of analysis of social process and social patterns involved in the educational system”.

Walter: “sociology of education as an analysis of social metrication with the school education.

Brown : ‘educational sociology it the study of the individual and his cultural environment

Scope of sociology of education:

Sociology of education has a wider scope to include various aspects of the societ,  studied with the educational system. Some of them are;

Effect of economy on the type of education provided.

The social forces and determinants that effect educational and cultural change.

Social institutions involved in the educational process .

Relationship between social class culture and language and between education and occupation.

Problems of emborgeolsement, democratization and elitism.

School viewed as a formal organization.

Various problems of role structure and role analysis in relation to the school and so on.

Includes the inter relationship of education with social stratification, personality patterns educational organization, teacher pupil relations, democratic principles, mass media etc..

Socialization:

The human in fact comes into the works as a biological organism with a normal nature . He is gradually malted into social being and he learns social ways of pattern and feeling. The process of molding is called socialization.

Brown: describes socialization as ,” an interacting process between the individual and his total environment through which be becomes a person”.

Cool : refers to socialization as ,” a process as a result of which children taken an themselves the various social roles, social, learning and developmental tasks”.

Drever thinks that “ socialization is a process by which the individual is adapted to his social environment and becomes a recognized co-operating  and efficient member of it.

Peter warsely explains socialization as “ the process of transmission of culture , the process where by men learn the rules and practices of social groups”.

The process of socialization:

Every man tries to adjust himself to the conditions of his social environment . This process of adjustment is itself socialization. The social order  is maintained largely by socialization. Individuals learn to conform to the norms of the group. This helps the group to maintain its order socialization is a process of transforming the human animal into a human being of converting the biological being into a social being

Socialization is a continuous process:

Socialization is a process of inducting the individual into the social world . It consists in teaching culture which he must acquire and share socialization is social learning . Perfection is social learning is rarely achieved . The process of socialization is something that continues throughout life we must not think that there is a stage in learning at which a man has learnt everything about his group and that there after, he ceases to learn.

Man belongs to different groups at different stages of his life . As these groups changes, so we must learn new rules, new patterns of behaviors’, Moreover, we do not remain within the same role. Even though we are members of family all our life, we are constantly changing out roles within  it. We are being as children pass through adolescence into adulthood, marry become parents entire middle age, retire and grow old with each role come new patterns of behavior that we must learn. Thus throughout out life, we are involved in the socialization process.

Agencies of socialization:

Family: Family is the basic unit of society. It is the basic primary group. The primary socialization begins in the family . To the child home is the first school and mother is the  first teacher . Family teacher the accepted ways of behaviors it initiates the child to the pattern of daily life. Family helps for physical, moral, social and behavioral development . It provides face to face relation and it helps the child to learn social behaviors’ as well as manners. The child will learn the co-operation, tolerance sympathy, good habit, sleeping communication skills etc. In the family.

The family will perform various functions which help for socialization family gives love and affection.

Family will look oater the child in various aspects. IT protects the child from diseases and deficiencies and family will give special care to mentally immature and physically desirable children