EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
COURSE V
Meaning and scope of
educational Sociology
Saramma Mathew
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UNIT I: EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
(5 Lectures)
a) Meaning and Scope of Educational Sociology
b) Influence of Educational Sociology on
i) Aims
ii) Curriculum
iii) Methods of Teaching
UNIT II: DEMOCRACY AND MODERNISATION
(9 Lectures)
a) Education for Democracy—Secularism,
Egalitarianism, Effective
Citizenship.
b) Concept and Characteristics of
Modernization
c) Role of Education in Modernization—
Scientific Temper.
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UNIT III: EDUCATION FOR PEACE
(14 Lectures)
a) Concept and Need of Peace Education
b) Education and National Integration
i) Barriers to National Integration: Regionalism, Linguism &
Communalism.
ii) Role of Education in promoting National Integration
c) Education and International Understanding
i) Barriers to International Understanding: Terrorism, Racism &
War
ii) Role of Education in promoting International Understanding
UNIT IV: EDUCATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
(8 Lectures)
a) Concept of Human Rights (Meaning, Need)
b) Deprivation of Human Rights: Child Exploitation, Gender
Discrimination
& Casteism.
c) Role of Education in promoting Human Rights.
UNIT V: ESSENTIAL APPROACHES IN
EDUCATION FOR DYNAMIC
 INDIAN SOCIETY (6 Lectures)
 a) Role of Family & School.
 b) Alternative Learning Systems.
 c) Role of Voluntary Organizations in
catering to the need of Marginalized
 groups.
 SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
 1. Projects on Women’s Issues.
 2. Visits to places of significance- Rural
schools, Voluntary and Government
 Organizations etc. 
DEFINITION OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
“Educational Sociology is the study of the
interaction of individual and his cultural
environment including other individuals’
social groups and patterns and behaviour.
Educational sociologist utilizes all that
has been learnt in both the fields but joins
them in a new science by applying
Sociological concept to the whole process
of education.
Brown
DEFINITIONS OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
Educational sociology starts with the
assumption that education is an
activity which goes on in the society
and the society in turn determines
the nature of education.
Ottaway
Educational sociology its sociology
applied to the solution of
fundamental educational problems.
Roueek
MEANING EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
Educational sociology is a
branch of sociology which came
into existence as a synthesis
between education and
sociology.
It emphasises that aims of
sociology should be achieved
through educational process
MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
•A
branch of sociology, an applied branch
of sociology
•It
is neither sociology nor education. It is
a new science
•A
•A
synthesis of sociology and education
science that applies theoretical and
practical sociological principle in the field
of education
MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
•It
is a subject which deals with the
interaction of individual and his cultural
environment.
•Examines
social processes social
interactions social institutions social
development and welfare which to
understand the nature and problem of
education.
•Is
concerned with the development of the
individual and society.
MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
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Develops procedural method and plans
to bring about desired changes in
individuals involved in the education
process.
Helps the education phenomenon to
deal with social complexities of
learning.
SCOPE OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
•It
examines the mutual relations of
teachers, students, parents and
community.
•The
place of teachers in a society.
•Social
problems, needs and aspirations
such as competition, conflicts and cooperation.
•Small
units of society and their
interrelationship.
SCOPE OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
School and it relationship with local
institutions
Effect of social life on individuals and group
school.
Progress of democratic feelings in school.
Necessary modifications in curriculum for
individual and social growth.
Encouragement to critical thinking and
investigation
SCOPE OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
Evaluation of T.V, radio, press, etc as
media of social progress
Determination of teaching methods for
development of child
Investigation of all the sources of social
restriction and advancement.
The role of education in social change and
social control
The concept of ideal social life and ways
and means to achieve