introduction to social dimension

Let’s divide the class into 3 groups

Fall in line

You need to arrange yourselves in accordance to what your facilitator says

For ExampleAccording to the length of your hair

The person who has the shortest hair will go to the front while the person who has the longest hair will go to the backThe quickest group who WILL finish arranging themselves will get a corresponding point

BEST OF THREE

Introduction to Social Dimension

of Education

Sociological Theory•Theories guide research and policy formulation in the sociology of education•They also provide logical explanations for why things happen the way they do.•Theories help sociologist understand educational systems•Educational theories change over time and (cultural) space.

Sociology of Education

• The sociology of education is the study of how social institutions and individual experiences affects education and its outcome. • It is relatively a new branch and two great sociologist Émile Durkheim and Max Weber were the father of sociology of education. Émile Durkheim's work on moral education as a basis for social solidarity is considered the beginning of sociology of education.

Social System•Consist of plurality of individual actors interacting with each other with at least physical or environmental aspect.•Social system copes with the integration of function by controlling its component parts. •Cultural system performs the latency function by providing the norms and values that motivates them for action.

Sociological Theory•Society has two faces (Dahrendorf; 1959,1968) •Sociological Theory should be divided into 2 parts. Conflict Theory and Consensus Theory

Sociology•  The word Sociology originates from latin prefix :socius, "companion"; and the suffix -ology, "the study of", from Greek lógos, "knowledge" .•Sociology is the systematic study of society. Sociology encompasses all the elements of society is social relation, social stratification, social interaction, culture.

Society•:people in general thought of as living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions, and values•the people of a particular country, area, time, etc., thought of especially as an organized community

EducationEducation is a broad concept, referring to all the experiences in which learners can learn something .

The proponents of consensus and conflict sociological and social

theories are:

Karl Marx Emile Durkheim Max Weber

Talcott Parsons Robert MertonLouis Althusser

Ralph Dahrendorf Herbert Mead Herbert Blumer

Karl MarxMarx's class theory rests on the premise that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Emile DurkheimDurkheim discusses how modern society is held together by a division of labor that makes individuals dependent upon one another because they specialize in different types of work.

Max WeberAn action that a person does not think about cannot be a social action.

References:http://www.slideshare.net/frezzy18/introduction-to-the-social-dimension-of-education-gamilla-vinson-sabelo?qid=0ba058e3-e0ac-4a88-8fec-800feee3c0c5&v=&b=&from_search=5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociological_theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_theory

http://sociology.about.com/od/Sociology101/tp/Major-Sociological-Frameworks.htm

https://www.reference.com/world-view/examples-social-systems-94b4451fbf47f34chttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education