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EDU 121 Sociology of Education

100 levelEducation7 topics

EDU 121 covers 7 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. The nature and scope of sociology of education
  2. Socialisation: concepts, types and agencies
  3. Influence of social factors on the learning process
  4. Social stratification and school achievement
  5. Culture, social change and education
  6. The school as a formal organisation
  7. Sociological analysis of contemporary issues (cultism, examination malpractice, drug abuse)

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The nature and scope of sociology of education

The nature and scope of sociology of education focuses on what sociology of education is, how it studies education as a social institution, and the areas it covers such as schools, teachers, learners, curriculum, socialization, inequality, and social change.

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