Group 1 Social Science Theories of Education

Social Science
Theories of
Education
*Education and Society
*Society and Schools are interdependent and provide bi-
directional influence to each other.
*Sociology as a science provides theories, concepts and
principles that help us better understand theories and
principles that help shape and guide education.
*Education, on the other hand, through its
curriculum trains and educates the people with
the necessary knowledge, skills, values and
attitudes
INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL PHILIPPINE COMMUNITY
SOCIETY
Panuto:Hulaan ang tamang bantas na hinihingi sa ng pangungusap.
3 Parts of Social Science

Theories of Education
JUMBLED WORDS
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Consensus
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Conflict Theory
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Interactionism
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Structural
Functionalism
Parts of Social Science Theories of
Education
Consensus
And Interactionism
Conflict Theory
Structural
Functionalism
Consensus And Conflict Theory
*Consensus Theory-
-Shared norms and values that ensure the order, peace and stability
in the society. The emphasis is on social order,stability or social
regulation
-It focus on social order based on tacit or implied agreements.
*Conflict Theory
-Disagreement or clash between opposing ideas,principles or that may
overt or overt.
-Conflict theory highlights that the society and social order are
controlled by the powerful and the dominant groups of society.
*Conflict Theory and Education
Karl Marx argued that society is characterized
by class conflicts or the conflict between the
bourgeoisie (the rich owners of production)
and the proletariat (the poor workers or
working class).
*Conflict Theory and Education
-He also argued that schools teach and maintain
particular “status cultures” through which groups in
society with similar interests and positions in the
status hierarchy are able to maintain their status,
their power, their dominance.
Structural Functionalism
-states that society is made up of various
institutions that work together in
*cooperation. Institutions – viewed as
Action Systems
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Interactionism
-Focus on the interaction between students and

teachers ,students to students and even on their
environment.The importance of this theory is to
build social interaction to one another.
Assumptions of
1. System have property of order and
interdependence of parts.
2. System tend toward self-maintaining order, or
*
equilibrium.
3. The system may be static or involved in an
ordered process or change.
4. The nature of one part of the other system has an
impact on the form that the other parts can take.
Assumptions of
5.Systems maintain boundaries with their
environment.
6.Allocation
* and integration are two fundamental
processes necessary for a given state of equilibrium
system.
7.Systems tend toward self-maintenance involving
the maintenance of the relationships of the other
parts.
The Key Principles of the
Functionalist Perspective .
1.Interdependence- Society is made up of independents

parts and that every part of society is dependent parts and
that every part of society is happens in one affects the other
parts .
2. Functions of Social Structure and Culture – It is assumed
that each part of the social structure system exists because
it serves some function.This idea is applied to both the
social structure and culture.
The Key Principles of the
Functionalist Perspective .
3.Consensus and Cooperation - Societies have tendency

toward consensus to have certain basic values that nearly
everyone in the society agrees upon .
4. Equilibrium -is a characteristics of society that has
achieved the form that is best adapted to its situation when
society has reached a state of balance or equilibrium it will
remain in that condition until it is forced to change by some
new condition.
The Component Parts of
Social Structure are
:
1. Families 2. Neighborhood
3. Associations 4. Schools
5. Churches 6. banks
7. countries, etc.
FUNCTIONALISM
-Stresses interdependence of the social system

-Examines how parts are integrated with each other.
-Compares society with a machine
-Stresses the processes that maintain social order by stressing consensus and
agreement
-Understands that change is inevitable and underscores the evolutionary nature of
change.
-Acknowledges that conflict between groups exists.
-examine the social processes necessary to the establishment and maintenance of
social order
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Interactionist Theories
Attempt to make the commonplace, strange

-
by noticing, focusing their attention and

observing the everyday-taken-for-granted
behaviors and interactions between students
and students, and between teachers and
students.
Symbolic Interactionism
Interactionist Theory is tracked back to the works of

sociologists George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley.
They examined the ways in which the individual is related to
society through ongoing social interactions thought, known as
Social Interactionism, views the self as socially constructed in
relation to social forces and structures and the product of
ongoing negotiations of meanings .
-They are NonSymbolic Interaction or in the term used by
George Herbert Mead, The conversation of gestures
which does not inlove not involve thinking blumer made
the differentiation between on those two basic forms of
social interaction namely (1) nonsymbolic interaction
which does not involve thinking and (2) 2 symbolic
interaction.

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Principles of Symbolic
Interactionism
1. Human beings, unlike lower animals, are endowed with a capacity
for thought.
2. The capacity for thought is shaped by social interaction.
3. In social interaction, people learn the meanings and symbols that
allow them to exercise their distinct capacity for human thought.
4. Meanings and symbols allow people to carry on distinctively human
action and interaction.
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Principles of Symbolic
Interactionism
5.People are able to modify or alter the meanings and symbols they
use in action and interaction on the basis of their interpretation of
the situation.
6.People are able to make these modifications and alterations,
because, in part, of their ability to interact with themselves, which
allows them to examine possible courses of action, assess their
relative advantages and disadvantages, and then choose one. .The
intertwined patterns of actions and interactions make up groups and
societies.
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Symbolic Interactionism
 is based on the following premises by Mead:

1. People act toward the things they encounter on the basis of what those things
mean to them. The word things refer not only to objects but to people, activities, and
situations as well.
2. We learn what things are by observing how other people respond to them
through social interaction.
3. As a result of ongoing interaction, the sounds (or words), gestures, facial
expressions, and body postures we use in dealing with others acquire symbolic
meanings that are shared by people who belong to the same culture.
Example: The handshake, a symbolic gesture which is not simply a mutual grasping
of hands, palms, fingers but conveys the symbolic gesture of greetings among
Filipinos.
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 According to Blumer, there are three types of objects:
1. Physical objects
2. 2. Social objects
3. Abstract objects
All human beings are created by God and therefore everybody must
be given equal rights and must be treated with respect and dignity
Looking Glass Self by Charles Horton Cooley
“We see ourselves as others see us.”
“We use other people as a mirror into which we look to see what we
are like.”
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Social Science

3 Parts of Social Science

-Focus on the interaction between students and

1.Interdependence- Society is made up of independents

3.Consensus and Cooperation - Societies have tendency

-Stresses interdependence of the social system

Attempt to make the commonplace, strange

by noticing, focusing their attention and

Interactionist Theory is tracked back to the works of

 is based on the following premises by Mead:

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