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What are the key study areas in sociology?

      

What are the key study areas in sociology?

  

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Francis
a) Sociology of Education studies the macro-environment within which education operates. This includes the social environment such as the general social structure, political system, role of the state in education, and equality and equity in education.

b) Sociology of Education is concerned with immediate physical and social environments of given learners.

c) Sociology of Education studies the organizational framework of learning. This includes the structure of the school, the organization of the curriculum and class management.

d) Sociology of Education focuses on the relationship between discipline and learning. Education aims at producing a particular type of person.

e) Sociology of education studies professionalism in education. This includes the role of the teacher, teaching activities, the learners' Learning environment and the role of the school as a formal social organization.

f) Sociology of Education also studies the negative contributions of education such as social stratification, class formation, ethnic and racial differentiation, social control and acquisition of power by individuals and acquisition of competitiveness instead of- cooperative attitudes in society.

francis1897 answered the question on August 18, 2022 at 08:12


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