The Sociology Of Education (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology Of Education) - 9780415788960

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- General Editor's Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Sociology and Education -- Introduction -- The sociology of Education -- Sociological Approaches to Problems -- What is Education? -- Formal and Informal Education -- Conclusion -- 2 The Social Animal: Some Preliminary Perspectives -- Culture -- Culture and Personality -- The Transmission of Culture -- Education and Social Structure -- Conclusion: Education is the Creation of Talent -- 3 The school -- From Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft -- Bureaucracy -- Etzioni's Classification of Organisations -- Bidwell's Analysis of American Education -- People-Processing Social Establishment -- Education in a Social Establishment -- The Social Process of Interpersonal Evalution -- Adaptation to Education -- Conclusion: The Process of Education -- 4 The Social Environment of the Institution of Education -- The Socio-Cultural Environment -- The Demographic Environment -- The Administrative Environment -- The Family -- Social Class -- The Peer Group -- Conclusion -- 5 The Social Functions of Education -- The Basic Dual Function -- Schooling and Consensus -- School and Social Change -- The Functions of the Education System -- Schooling and Social Mobility -- Education as a Sorting and Selecting Agency -- 'Educational' Selection -- Labour force Preparation -- Meritocratic Selection -- Social class Selection -- Conclusion -- Bibliography

• | Author: Donald Francis Swift
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 134 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 041578896X
• | ISBN-13: 9780415788960