SOCI 3630 Chapter 1: Chapter One- The Sociological Analysis of Education
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Introduction: education helps to share our personalities as well as our life choices and chances. In many respects, all human experiences are educative. The sociological understanding of educational problems: sociologists are interested in education because it is so central to human social experience, to our direct and indirect relations with other people. Education in its various guises, conveys important insights about particular kinds of societies and the people within them. Sociology and its relation to other disciplines: sociology is the investigation of the relationships between individuals and society. It examines how social structures (relatively enduring patterns of social organization) and social practices (ongoing social activity) both shape and are shaped by human beings. Social structures and practices are constantly being reshaped and reinterpreted by human activity. Moreover, the sociological investigator, as part of the social world being studied may have an impact on social actions and how they are understood.
