SOC 6210 Social Theory: Education

Discusses social theory as it applies to education. Such concepts as folkways, mores, innovation and social change, status and role, social class, formal and informal systems of socialization and value systems are analyzed for their implications for modern education. Problems of human and intercultural relations in schools today are discussed. Among the authors discussed are Barnett, Durkheim, Goodman, Myrdral, Reisman, Summer, Skinner, Sexton, Toynbee, and Waller.
Credits: 3.0