Sociological Theories On Education

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I. INTRODUCTION—Sociological Theories II. Body A. Functionalism and Education B. Conflict and Education C. Interactionism and Education III. CONCLUSION IV. REFERENCES I. INTRODUCTION: I’m going to evaluate the impact of the sociological theories on education; Functionalism, Conflict, and Interactionism. Functionalism, being society, is viewed as a system. Conflict theory states that the society or organization functions so that each individual participant and its groups struggle to maximize their benefits, which inevitably contributes to social changes. Interactionism sets out three basic premises of perspective. II. BODY A. Functionalism: The thesis that general education should prepare for the needs of everyday life has a twofold implication…It means, first, that the content of the course must be focused upon the opportunities, demands, and exigencies of daily living and, second, that the method of instruction must be calculated to develop in the student those abilities—information, understanding, skills of thinking, interests, attitudes, ideals, and purposes—which will prepare him/her for the situations and activities of life. Such a functional point of view implies at once a breaking away from the older subject-matter approach in teaching. Too be sure, subject-matter still has a place, for knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts and principles are indispensable to anyone who would cope with the many changes, intricacies, and perplexities of modern life. Subject-matter interpretation becomes a means to an end. Subject-matter as a means also implies that it will be used by the instructor for purposes of developing in the student numerous types of abilities—skills of thinking, interests, attitudes—which are indispensable, along with information and knowledge, for living in the modern world. Thus our conception is not that

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