This document discusses educational sociology, including definitions from various scholars. It notes that educational sociology is the scientific study of how education relates to society and its institutions. The aims of studying educational sociology are to develop social attitudes, a socially efficient individual, and vocational efficiency. The importance is that it examines the interrelation between education and society, and how education can promote social progress through institutions like schools. The scope includes how culture and socialization are transmitted between generations via educational agencies, and how education acts as an agent of social change and control.

1. Educational Sociology
Dr.M.Deivam
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Education,
Gandhigram Rural Institute
Gandhigram, Dindigul district,
Tamil Nadu – 624 302
E-mail: deivammuniyandi@gmail.com

2. Meaning and Concept of
Educational Sociology
• E.George Payne (USA) often called the
“Father of Educational Sociology”.
• Educational Sociology is the science
which describes and explains institutions,
groups and social processes in relation to
the educational system.

3. Definitions of Educational
Sociology
• Ottoway – Educational Sociology start
with assumption that education is an
activity which goes on in a society, and its
aims and methods depend on the nature
of the society, in which take place.

4. Cont.,
• Dan.W.Dodson – Educational Sociology
is particularly interested in findings out
how to manipulate the educational process
to achieve better personality development.
• Good – Educational Sociology is the
scientific study of how people live in social
groups.

5. Aims of studying Educational
Sociology
• Development of social attitudes, feelings
and qualities
• Development of a socially efficient
individual
• Improvement in vocational efficiency
• To construct curriculum according to fulfill
the societal needs.

6. Importance of Educational
Sociology
• Interrelation of education and sociology
• Education as an instrument of social
progress.
• Place of school in society
• Place of teacher in society

7. Cont.,
• Mutual relations of students and teachers
• Social life in the school
• School and the community
• School and its relations with social
institutions
• Social Advancement

8. Cont.,
• Curriculum and needs of the society
• Equalisation of educational opportunities
• Role of the mass media in education and
social progress
• Use of group and co-operative methods of
teaching

9. Scope of Educational Sociology
• It includes the relation of education to
various social forces, particularly culture.
• It includes how culture is handed over to
coming generations through agencies like
the school, the home, the religious
organizations, the play-groups etc.

10. Cont.,
• It includes how socialisation, especially of
the child takes place as a result of social
interaction.
• It includes the role of these agencies in the
educational process: the school, the press,
the radio, the T.V and the cinema.

11. Cont.,
• It includes education as a mean of social
change and social control.
• It deals with the impact of sociological thinking
on the meaning, aims, functions of education,
the curricular including co-curricular activities,
social organization and methodology of
teaching.

12. Educational Sociology
Sociology of Education
• According to Prof. William Taylor of the
Faculty of Education, University of Bristol,
Educational Sociology is usually an activity
of educators and sociology of education is
an activity of sociologists.

13. Sociology and Educational
Sociology
• Educational Sociology is a branch of
Sociology. While sociology is the study of
‘human relationship’. Educational
Sociology is concerned with human
relations in educational setting.