Social Dimension

1. Let’s divide the class into 3
groups
Fall in line
You need to arrange yourselves
in accordance to what your
facilitator says

2. For Example
According 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 back
The quickest group who WILL finish arranging
themselves will get a corresponding point
BEST OF THREE

3. Introduction to
Social Dimension of
Education

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. Education
Educationis a broad concept,
referring to all the experiences in
which learners can learn something.

11. The proponents of consensus and
conflict sociological and social
theories are:

12. Karl Marx Emile Durkheim Max Weber

13. Talcott
Parsons
Robert MertonLouis Althusser

14. Ralph
Dahrendorf Herbert Mead Herbert Blumer

15. KarlMarx
Marx's class theory
rests on the premise
that "the history of
all hitherto existing
society is the history
of class struggles."

16. Emile Durkheim
Durkheim 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.

17. Max Weber
An action that a
person does not
think about cannot
be a social
action.

20. References:
http://www.slideshare.net/frezzy18/introduction-to-the-social-dimension-of-education-gamilla-vinson-
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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-94b4451fbf47f34c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education