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Sociology of education
1. The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is most concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing education.
2. Education has often been seen as a fundamentally optimistic human endeavor characterized by aspirations for progress and betterment. It is understood by many to be a means of overcoming handicaps, achieving greater equality and acquiring wealth and social status. Education is perceived as a place where children can develop according to their unique needs and potential. It is also perceived as one of the best means of achieving greater social equality.
3. Many would say that the purpose of education should be to develop every individual to his full potential and give him a chance to achieve as much in life as his natural abilities allow. Few would argue that any education system accomplishes this goal perfectly. Some take a particularly negative view, arguing that the education system is designed with the intention of causing the social reproduction of inequality.
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All people understand the purpose of education in their own way: somebody takes a positive view, somebody a negative one.
The sociology of education is most concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies.
Education promotes progress and betterment, development of everybody’s potentials as well as the means of acquiring wealth and social status.
The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes.
