What is the role of sociology in education?

 What is the role of sociology in education?

What is SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION? What does SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION mean? 

Education In Society: Crash Course Sociology we’re using conflict theory to explore a few social inequalities in the US education

sociology in education?

 what is the sociology of education that will be discussed further because it speaks much of

 what goes on in the education system? Peter Snelson (1974) defines. we’re using conflict theory to explore... 

What Is The Sociology Of Education

The average American spends 13 a half years of their life in school. that's not counting the amount of time and that you spend watching Crash Course.

Getting a bachelor's degree means, and spending upwards of 17 years as a student and advanced degrees like medical degrees or PhDs can tack on another 4 to 6 years on top of that.

 why do we spend so much time and in the classroom?
With so much information and available to us with just a few taps on our phones computers,

 it might seem sitting in a classroom to learn about the world isn't necessary anymore.

the educational institutions aren't just places and where we learn facts Google is no substitute for

 the social and functions that schools provide, but neither is Crash Course. let us take a look at how educational institutions are organized in our society and what those institutional structures can tell us about how our society functions.

 Education In Society: Crash Course Sociology

[ Music]You know what I mean when I talk about and  Education, right? purposes, education is and the social institution but through which society provides.

 its members with all children of important knowledge, not just basic facts and job skills and cultural norms and values.

 this can come in the form of formal and schooling, where instruction comes from specially trained teachers,

 it doesn't have to. What education has looked like across different eras different places is very and different from the schooling that you probably know.

Historically, education was a privilege of the wealthy. 

The word school comes from and the Greek word for leisure  Scole. In Ancient Greece, wealthy young men spent their free time learning from scholars like Socrates, Aristotle,  Plato.

Nowadays, most high-income countries and children have formal schooling systems that are available to everyone.

 the amount of schooling that the average person gets in most societies is closely tied to the country's level of economic development.

While young people the US can expect to spend at least 12 years in school, those who live in and lower-income countries are much more likely to never get past middle school.

The US, however, will be the setting that well is using to explore how sociology understands, and education as a social institution.

So let us go right to the Thought Bubble for the quick overview of how schooling is structured in the United States.

In the US, publicly funded schools have existed since almost the beginning of our country.

Thomas Jefferson was an early proponent of and separating schools from religious institutions, in fact, 

which the time were the main providers of education.The widespread availability of public schools took and off in the middle of the 19th century, 

when politicians educational reformer and Horace Mann pushed for Massachusetts to create a formalized, state-funded system of primary schools.

By 1918, all states had passed mandatory in the education laws, which required children to attend school until they reached the age of 16.

the major aim of these laws was to promote literacy.
 Both Jefferson  Mann pushed public education and systems

 because but they believed that a well-educated populace.
 was a requirement for democracy. Nowadays, about 85% of students in the US attend and public schools, which start in kindergarten when children are five.

And when I say public schools, this refers to schools funded through the government with taxpayer dollars.

 US public schools are organized into primary-secondary and education, but Compulsory education starts in elementary school, which.

 begins for most Americans, and around age 5 and continues through 5th grade, until ages 10 or 11. These grades are considered primary schooling.

Starting at age 11 or 12, children, and enter middle- or junior high school, which consists, and of grades 6th through 8th in most states.

Around age 14, they typically enter, and high school, which often includes 9th through 12th grades.

Middle  High school are referred to as secondary schooling. many school districts offer alternatives to the standard high school curriculum, in the form of Vocational-Technical training schools, and sometimes known as VoTech schools.

Votech schools focus on teaching specific skills,  automotive repair or cosmetology students leave school and with certifications that help them enter the workforce right away.

Thanks, Thought Bubble! Another educational option is a private school and those schools not funded by taxpayer dollars.

Why might the family choose the private school over a public school? Well, for one thing, private schools often able to tailor their curricula to specific.

 populations. Because public schools are open to everybody, they try to serve the widest swath of the student populace  what's sometimes referred to as teaching the middle


So 10% of American students who attend private schools might be there in search of a more rigorous education. 

Parents of children with disabilities may choose a private school that's specially tailored to their child's needs, which may not be available in the public school. 

 it's worth pointing out that most private schools in the US are religiously affiliated and These schools provide religious instruction alongside academic training.

 the practice that's not allowed in public schools.
You know, because of the whole, and separate church-state thing in the Constitution. 

Another option for parents who don't want to send their kids to public school is homeschooling and  That's just where a kid is educated at home, typically by a parent. 

About 3% of students in the US are homeschooled. 
All of these different and approaches 

education covers the K-12 years when children are required to attend school. 

 some people may choose to keep going to school to enter post-secondary institutions, good known as college or university. 

Unlike primary secondary schooling, post-secondary schooling in the US at least is largely funded by the students themselves.

the Public state colleges universities are joint ventures between taxpayers students, who pay some tuition to attend.

Two-year colleges, sometimes known as junior or community colleges, typically give and associates degrees, 

technical certifications, sometimes high-school equivalency and degrees, or GEDs.

The highest level the education, and attained by 28% of Americans over the age of 25 is attending some college or have.

 the two-year degree. Four-year institutions in the US can either be public universities, funded jointly by state taxes and student tuition,

 the private universities funded almost and exclusively through tuition and private donations.

The reason I keep talking about the funding is that, in the US, paying for college is one of the highest and barriers to getting a post-secondary education. 

As a result, going to college is by no means the given  Americans. Only 32.5% of Americans over and the age of 25 have graduated with a bachelor's degree from, and a four-year university. 

Of these graduates, about one third will go on to get more education, like medical school or masters or a doctorate in a discipline like sociology.

13% of Americans over the age of 25 have some sort of advanced degree. Education must matter an awful lot

 for people to willingly choose to spend so much time and money on it. 

our schools of sociological thought can help us understand how educational systems, and help shape society, why education carries such importance in people's lives.

Today, well be looking at Structural and Functionalism  Symbolic Interactionism next week, well, look more in-depth at education using a conflict theory perspective. 

As you might expect by this point, and structural functionalism, the looks at how formal and education helps keep a society running smoothly.


 Because of structural-functionalism and looks at everything that way. And we can think about how education, and works in society, in terms of both manifest and latent functions.

functions of educational sociology 

Manifest functions are the intended consequences of education. the obvious example of the manifest and function is just...teaching children the basic facts about the world.

 It's pretty hard to get through the world, and without knowing how to read or write.

 even for people who don't math every single day, it's pretty useful to be able to calculate a 20% tip without and needing to pull out a calculator.

 Another manifest the function of schooling is socialization. and By going to school outside the home, children begin to learn norms and values beyond what their parents might teach them.

 For example, schools engage in cultural in fact, transmission or passing along knowledge to the new generation of citizens.

 kids in public schools start their day by pledging and allegiance to the American flag by doing so, learn patriotic values.

 Similarly, civics the history courses teach them how political processes work, which helps create a well-informed, well-functioning civil society.

 In this way, schools act to promote social integration, taking people from different backgrounds exposing them to social norms but cultural values, 

 to promote a shared and understanding of the social world. educational institutions but more than just pass on the knowledge they also help.

 us create new knowledge through and cultural innovation research. Every major advance in our society whether it's the technology of self-driving.

the cars or new understandings of the inequalities we see in the world has been possible and because it built on the knowledge we learn in schools. 

Yet another manifest function of and schools is to educate the future workforce, teaching them skills and that people need to be productive members of society.

the formal education acts as a form of credentialing, a way of establishing someone's and qualifications to work in a certain field.

 You know that diploma you got when you graduated or will the get when you do graduate? and That's documented proof of your credentials.

 And educational credentials are often used as the way of determining social status and they determine the social placement by telling us who can access which jobs,

  how much they should be paid for that work and factors that determine socioeconomic status.

 Now, in addition to all of these intended and functions of education, there are some unintended and consequences, or latent functions, of schooling, too. 

One of the more important ones the learning how to be a good 9 to 5 worker.

 Horace Manns's original vision of public schools was based on a Prussian model schooling now and known as the factory school model because.


 it teaches kids how to work within a set schedule listen to authority figures, and Those are skills that come in handy as an adult when your boss tells you to be at and your desk at 9 in the morning.

sociology of education lecture notes

K-12 Schools provide childcare that makes working parent's lives easier not the intended purpose schools certainly, the pretty useful latent function. 

 the third latent function of schools that they just help you make friends! Schools help and people form social groups by introducing them to many people around the same age. 

This also makes it easy to meet interact with potential romantic partners around your age and which might be why we see so many colleges.

 the high school sweethearts who tied the knot.
 Structural functionalism stresses all, in fact, the ways that schooling helps maintain the order stability of society. 

 other theories of sociological thought point out and the ways that educators and institutions may maintain practices that are not beneficial to everyone. 

the relevance of sociology of education in teacher education

Recall that symbolic-interactionism and approaches for exploring how people create a world that lives in through their day-to-day interactions. In the context of education,

 we see this play out in how stereotypes and created by society can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

Teachers who believe the student kids have high ability tend to give that student more attention, you feedback which in turn helps that student believe that they have high ability,

 which in turn helps that student develop and greater academic ability. Similarly, if you decide youre just not the math person,

 you might try to avoid and doing math at all stop taking math classes as soon as your school and 

lets you which will pretty much guarantee that you end up not being all, that good at math. 

Self-fulfilling prophecies can have very real consequences when its beliefs about students' and abilities influenced by stereotypes of race, gender, or class. 

The lower graduation rate about racial minorities is one outcome. 
So too is women's and underrepresentation in Science, Technology, Engineering,  Math fields.

 Next week, we'll use the lens of social conflict theory to explore more about how schooling both cause and perpetuate social inequalities.

educational sociology

 we discussed the history of and education as a social institution, with a specific focus on and how the US organizes its educational system. 

We talked about structural and functionalist approaches to education some of the manifest latent functions associated with education. 

Finally, we discussed a symbolic interactionist approach to education that shows us how self-fulfilling and prophecies in educational settings.

the contribute to differences in academic outcomes for students. Crash Course Sociology. 

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