Examples of the sociology of education in the following topics:
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- The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes.
- A systematic sociology of education began with Émile Durkheim's work on moral education as a basis for organic solidarity.
- This is an expectation set forth at the beginning of a student's education.
- Therefore, the other purpose of education is to sort and rank individuals for placement in the labor market.
- School serves as a primary site of education, including the inculcation of "hidden curricula" of social values and norms.
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- Education policy refers to the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems.
- Education policy refers to the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems.
- Therefore, education policy can directly affect the education of people at all ages.
- Education policy analysis is the scholarly study of education policy.
- Important researchers are affiliated with departments of psychology , economics , sociology , and human development , in addition to schools and departments of education or public policy.
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- College graduates trained in sociology bring unique and valuable insights into business decisions concerning issues surrounding race, ethnicity, gender, age, education, and social class.
- Some sociologists find the adaptation of their sociological training and insights to the business world relatively easy.
- Sociology majors are particularly well-suited for this type of research as the ultimate goal of empirical sociological research is to predict human behavior.
- For those planning on continuing their education, the table to the right breaks down the most frequently chosen fields of study for sociology majors:
- Sociology majors should view their undergraduate education as opening doors for them into many possible fields of work and study.
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- Demography is the study of human population dynamics.
- It encompasses the study of the size, structure and distribution of populations, and how populations change over time due to births, deaths, migration, and aging.
- Demographic analysis can relate to whole societies or to smaller groups defined by criteria such as education, religion, or ethnicity.
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- The mission of Hull House was to provide social and educational opportunities forworking class people in the surrounding neighborhood.
- Her adult night school was a forerunner of the continuing education classes offered by many universities today.
- In combining research with action, Jane Addams and the other members of Hull House illustrate the practice of sociology.
- The goal of this chapter is to introduce different forms of sociological practice.
- Sociological Practice thus refers to the ways people do sociology in the course of their lives as well as the ways they approach sociological research, theory, methods, and knowledge.
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- The following are videos - including fiction movies, non-fiction documentaries and recorded lectures - examining topics in the field of sociology.
- See this link for a sortable table of sociological videos: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Sociology/Sociological_Videos
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- The strategies were based on sociological findings that fertility rates are lower in modern industrial or post-industrial economies, where people put off having children in order to pursue education and economic opportunities.
- They were also based on sociological findings that fertility rates are lower when women have opportunities to pursue education and work outside the home.
- Here, we will discuss the possibilities of applied sociology and one subfield, clinical sociology.
- Outside of the corporate world, sociology is often applied in governmental and international agencies such as the World Bank or United Nations.
- Jane Addams is considered by many to be one of the earliest sociologists, though her contributions were mostly to the application of sociology to social work.
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- Aging (sometimes spelled as ageing) is both a biological and sociological process wherein human beings experience and accomplish stages of biological and social maturation.
- An example of the bio-social and objective/subjective nature of aging may be useful.
- This person will likely experience a biological development characterized by the addition of years from birth and by biological understandings of the time (e.g., a being born in 1980 would have a life expectancy, medical and legal definition, and contextual series of economic, educational, and other possibilities based upon birth at this time).
- As such, our person born into the United States during the 1980's can be expected to follow relatively stable patterns of biological development that will be interpreted in similar ways to others born at the same time.
- What kind of education did this child receive, public or private, what types of educational funding and other educational opportunities did this child receive?
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- While there remains considerable debate within sociology about the best function or purpose of sociological practice, three primary approaches provide the foundational cues for contemporary sociological practice.
- Despite the fact that each of these views has been evident within sociological practices throughout the history of the discipline (as well as within and between other academic disciplines), they have become the source of heated debates throughout the last three decades.
- Rather than taking sides in these debates, we thus provide introductory descriptions of these three major approaches to sociological practice, and encourage students to consider the pros and cons of each approach.
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- The diversity of their trainings is reflected in the topics they researched, including religion, education, economics, psychology, ethics, philosophy, and theology.
- In the United States, the first Sociology course was taught at the University of Kansas, Lawrence in 1890 under the title Elements of Sociology (the oldest continuing sociology course in America).
- Small, who in 1895 founded the American Journal of Sociology.
- The first European department of sociology was founded in 1895 at the University of Bordeaux by Emile Durkheim, founder of L'Année Sociologique (1896).
- But in the case of sociology, it is prediction of human behavior, which is a complicated proposition.