This presentation discusses educational sociology. It defines educational sociology as the study of how social relationships and public institutions influence education and its outcomes. The aims of educational sociology are to understand how social factors like family, class, culture, and school affect students. Its scope includes examining concepts like society, culture, socialization, and the relationship between social structures and school structure. The functions of educational sociology are the diffusion of knowledge, social control, cultural transmission, social progress, and facilitating social development and change.