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The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is mostly concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher , further , adult , and continuing education.
This category includes pages that relate to sociological theories and social phenomena in education. The main article for this category is Sociology of education . Subcategories
Sociology of Education is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2019 impact factor is 3.617. In 2017, it ranked 17 out of 238 journals in the category 'Education & Educational Research'. and 10 out of 146 journals in the category 'Sociology'.
The sociology of education is the study of how educational institutions determine social structures, experiences, and other outcomes. It is particularly concerned with the schooling systems of modern industrial societies. [138]
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life is a 1976 book by economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.Widely considered a groundbreaking work in sociology of education, [citation needed] it argues the "correspondence principle" explains how the internal organization of schools corresponds to the internal organisation of the capitalist ...
Education sciences, [1] also known as education studies, education theory, and traditionally called pedagogy, [2] seek to describe, understand, and prescribe education including education policy. Subfields include comparative education , educational research , instructional theory , curriculum theory and psychology , philosophy , sociology ...
Pages in category "Books about the sociology of education" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hammersley's early research was in the sociology of education, with a particular focus on processes of classroom interaction in secondary schools. [8] He joined the Open University at a time when it was one of the leading centres for the 'new sociology of education', [9] and was involved in subsequent debates about the character and value of the various kinds of work coming under this heading.