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Education as a Social Institution

Education is the systematic and formal transmission of knowledge, skills, and values. In modern societies, education has become an institutionalized and formal activity. Schools serve several important functions, including socialization, cultural innovation, social integration, and social placement. Schools help socialize children by teaching basic skills and building knowledge. They also stimulate intellectual inquiry which leads to new ideas. Schools establish a common language and screening process to help integrate society and place individuals into roles.

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Education as a Social Institution

Education is the systematic and formal transmission of knowledge, skills, and values. In modern societies, education has become an institutionalized and formal activity. Schools serve several important functions, including socialization, cultural innovation, social integration, and social placement. Schools help socialize children by teaching basic skills and building knowledge. They also stimulate intellectual inquiry which leads to new ideas. Schools establish a common language and screening process to help integrate society and place individuals into roles.

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Social Institutions

EDUCATION

The Educational Institution

In the broader sense, education is almost synonymous with socialization, since both involve the passing on of culture from one person or group to another. The distinguishing feature of education in modern societies, however, is that it has become an institutionalized, formal activity.

Education is the systematic , formalized transmission of knowledge , skills, and values.

The Functions of Schooling


Socialization Cultural Innovation Social Integration Social Placement

Latent Functions

Socialization

As societies become more technologically complex , young people need to acquire rapidly expanding information and new skills, beyond the grasp of family members themselves, so other social institutions play a greater role in socialization. In industrial societies, schooling requires specially trained personnel to efficiently teach a wide range of knowledge. At the primary school level, children learn basic language and mathematical skills. Secondary school steadily builds on this foundation and, for some, college allows further specialization.

Cultural Innovation

Educational systems as well as transmit culture. Schools stimulate intellectual inquiry and critical thinking, which lead to the development of new ideas. Today, for example many college professors not only teach but engage in research that yields discoveries and innovations. Medical research, carried on mainly at major universities, has helped to increase life expectancy.

Social Integration

Schooling helps a mass of people into a unified whole.

Schools meet this challenge, first, by


establishing a common language to encourage broad communication.

Social Placement

Formal education helps young people assume culturally approved statuses and perform roles that contribute to the ongoing life of society. To accomplish this, schooling operates as a screening process that identifies and develops peoples various aptitudes and abilities. Ideally, schools evaluate students performance in terms of achievement while downplaying their social background. In this ideal scheme, the best and the brightest are encouraged to pursue the most challenging and advanced studies, while students of more pedestrian (dull) abilities are guided into educational programs and occupations suited to their talents.

Latent Functions of Schooling

Child Care To establish social relationships and

networks.

Habits of punctuality and obedience to authority.

How Social-Class Background Affect Educational Success?


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Cost of Education Family Expectations Cultural Background Language Problems Teacher Attitudes Labeling IQ Testing Peer-Group Influence

Why Academic Standards Have Declined?

Permissive Child rearing Changing Family Patterns Impact of Television Overburdened curriculum Inferior teachers Discipline Problems Greater Educational access

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