SOCIOLOGICAL

FOUNDATIONS OF
EDUCATION

SCOPE AND MEANING

Reporter: Jemalyn A. Apat
Sociology
- is derived from the Latin word, socius meaning associate,
and the Greek word , logus, which means science.
-began in prehistoric times when people first began to
make observations about each other’s behavior.
Auguste Comte
- a Frenchman, who did most of his writing in the 1830s
and 1840s.
-coined the word “sociology” to apply to the proposed
general social science of human behavior.
Sociology
- is derived from the Latin word, socius meaning associate,
and the Greek word , logus, which means science.
-began in prehistoric times when people first began to
make observations about each other’s behavior.

Auguste Comte
- a Frenchman, who did most of his writing in the 1830s
and 1840s.
-coined the word “sociology” to apply to the proposed
general social science of human behavior.
-known as the “Father of Sociology” because of his initial
significant efforts to advance sociology to the frontiers of
human knowledge.
Misconceptions about Sociology
There are many erroneous ideas concerning sociology. These are:
1. Sociology as some kind of reform movement.
-Sociologists may be individually interested in social reform and
many may have certain information which make them effective
reformers, but sociology is a science and not a movement.
2. Sociology has been confused with socialism as specific way of
changing society.
-This is completely erroneous, although sociologists may
subscribe to socialism.
3. Sociology is confused with social works.
- Perhaps because both deals with social problems.
4. sociology deals simply with people and define it as “study of
man”.
-But this definition is too broad.
5.Sociology is sometimes confused with social science.
The NATURE OF Educational Sociology
Sociology- is concerned with a study of people or group of
persons, and human activities in terms of in society.
- is a science interested in institutions of society such as
religion, family, government, education and recreation.
- it is a science involved in developing a better social order
characterized by good, happiness, tolerance and racial quality.
Functions of Educational Sociology
1. Educational sociology is primarily concerned with the influence of
education on social institution and group life on individual, such as how the
school affects the personality or behavior of an individual.
2. The human relations that operate in the school involving pupils, parents,
teachers and how they influence the personality and behavior of an individual.
3. The relation of the school to other institutions and elements of society,
such as the impact of education on the inner city.
Relation of Sociology to other social Sciences
1. Psychology- (Science of individual behavior)
-since sociology is concerned with relation between individuals.
It starts with certain psychological facts and overlaps with the part of
psychology which is interactive with the social science of individual
behavior.
2. History- (record’s of man’s past)
- it is important to know the data of men’s past relationships with
one another.
3. Anthropology- (comparative description of science and culture)
-sociology can learn much about human relationships under
different cultures in anthropology.
4. Geography- (study of man’s adaptation to his physical
environment)
- man’s relationships with his fellow men are conditioned by the
physical environment.
Relation of Sociology to other social Sciences
5. Economics/Political Science- (specialized investigation process
involved in the creation and distribution of material goods and services
(economics) and the power and inferences (political science)
- some of the concrete facts of human relationships that sociology
must build upon are turned up by economics and political scientists.

Emergence of Sociology
-The combination of a careful and thorough fact-gathering with a
desire to arrive at coherent generalizations about significant social
behavior marked the beginning of sociology as the science of human
relation.
Emile Durkheim- a Frechman,whose study of Suicide (1897) may be
considered as the first scientific sociological study, thus giving her the
first credit in the field of sociology.
The Educational Sociologist Accomplishments

1. Georg Simmel/Leopold Von Wiese - examined what they called

the forms of social processes
and did studies of money,
cultural contract and small communities.
2. Max Weber - compared the great civilizations
of mankind to determine the basic among their
differences.
- he saw class exploitation as the prime
moving force in the history of man.

3. Ferdinand Tonnies - made more detailed studies on

such topics as crimes, urbanism, and public
opinion.
The Educational Sociologist Accomplishments

4. Charles Horton Cooley - studied transportation, race, relations, and

the social growth of his own children. -

stressed the social origin of personality.
5. Edward Ross, Albion Small - began the systematic study of social control
and Franklin Giddings and social psychology.
6. George herbert Mead - concentrated on how important symbolic
communication is to personalities and social system.
7. Talcott Parsons (1973) - prominent temporary sociologists
and Robert Merton (1957) - maintained that every institution
fulfills certain functions and persists because it is
functional.
-thus the school educates and prepares them to be
productive citizens in their respective communities.
 Areas of Sociology
1. institutions and groups
2. formation and change
3. manner of functioning
4.relation to individuals and to others
5. specific institution such as:
a. family
b. church
c. industry
d. government
e. usually treated as separate branches of sociology
-The sociologists concerned with social organization are not concerned
with the specific content of those fields but with the general nature of
social structure, social order and social change.
-this is sometimes called the field of “social theory” and very often it is
taught as a history of thought concerning social order and change.
GOD BLESS !!