The Relationship between School and Society Schools as social agents and social critics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8OlVs-YvY)

1. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
2. SCHOOLS AS SOCIAL AGENTS AND SOCIAL CRITICS
Tasneem

School
• WHAT IS A SCHOOL?
• The word ‘school’ is normally associated to buildings, students, curriculum
and instruction, teachers and administration.
• Oxford English Dictionary definition: an institution for educating children.
Any institution at which instruction is given in a particular subject.
• School is a special institution, created to serve specific social needs.
• It, therefore, not only gets aims and objectives from society but its
contents and methods are also determined in accordance with the
activities, carried on in society, for which the school functions
Tasneem

Society
• A society is a group of people living according to a shared culture.
• Society refers to a group of persons who share a culture, government,
institutions, land, or a set of social relationships.
• A person can belong to several societies at a time
• religious, professional, and social
• The thing that makes a group of people a society is that they share a
common culture
Tasneem

RELATION BETWEEN SCHOOL & SOCIETY
• Schools shape children’s perceptions of the world, the
values, beliefs, and norms of society are internalized within
children so that they come to think and act like other
members of the society.
• Schools helps in building a nation.
•
Tasneem

RELATION BETWEEN SCHOOL & SOCIETY
• A good society is the product of a good school system and
a good school system is the product of a good society. So
there must be intimate relationships between the school
and the society.
Tasneem

School is the representative of society :
• School are special institution which strives for the
fulfillment of the desires of society.
• School determines its destination in the light of social
objectives.
• School is nothing but a reflection of the needs of society.
Tasneem

Society provides a line of action to
education (School)
• School cannot decide its objectives by itself.
• For the realization of the objectives of education, the
educational institutions are established in the society.
Tasneem

Effects of school on Society:
Schools have a deep impact on the
society. Parent’s school choice decisions are
influenced by the groups or organizations to
which they belong. Argues that parent’s
decisions not only influence student’s academic
performance but also effect students future.
Tasneem

EFFECTS OF COMMUNITY ON SCHOOL:
An effective method of promoting education and
ensuring school support is involving the community in
school activities.
• By inviting community members to join in school
festivities, the school administration can improve
effectiveness of the education and raise the
likelihood that the school will continue to be
supported by the community.
Tasneem

IMPACT OF PARTNERSHIP
• Upgraded school facilities
• Improved school leadership and staffing
• Higher quality learning programs for students
• New resources and programs to improve teaching and curriculum
• Resources for after-school programs and family supports
• Increased social and political capital of participants
Tasneem

Agents involve between school and
community
o The main group and agents involved in the dynamics of the
relationship between school and community are:
o School administration
o Teachers
o Non-teaching staff
o Students and parents
o Governing bodies
o School board.
Tasneem

Schools as social agents and social critics
1. CulturalTransmission
• As a social institutional, schools take a more traditional purpose in passing on of
culture.
• Function Perspective- Functionalists argue that the function of school for cultural
transmission is necessary for it maintains solidarity, integration, and stability of the
society.
• Conflict Perspective- Conflict theorists take a critical view of education by arguing
that educational system teaches and supports the norms, values, and social skills and
schools play little role in promoting significant changes in society.
• Critical Perspective- Critical theorists assert that individuals must be suspicious why
why such cultural elements are transmitted to individuals and society.
Tasneem

Sorting, Selection, and Allocation
• Another function of school is to select and allocate which people will
enter into occupation to be filled in society. .
• Functional Perspective- Functionalists agree to the sorting of
individuals as this is important in defining their specific roles in
society.
• Conflict Perspective- A very criticism of conflict sociologists is
centered on the way schools sort out people.
• Critical Perspective- Critical theorists argue that sorting can be a very
very dehumanizing mechanism of schools.
Tasneem

3. Credentialism
• Schools supply the needed manpower requirements of industry and
labor.To do this , it provides credentials or certifications to a number
of individuals going to school. Credentialing is the mechanism to
which schools give credentials (grades) and degrees that determine
the job opportunities available to individuals in society.
• Interactionist Perspective- Interactionist see degrees as symbol of
status and power.
• Functional Perspective- Functionalist suggest that various reward for
for different occupation roles is both functional and necessary for
society’s survival.
Tasneem

• Critical Perspective-Critical theorist argue that school
credentials are weapons to gain power and social or
economic advantage.
Tasneem

4. Political Integration
• Schools promote political integration and develops a sense
of national identify that stabilizes the political system.
• Interactionist Perspective- Interactionists say that
democracy or any political ideology is a social construct
and is product of social interaction in school .
• Functional Perspective- Functionalism contends that
education has positive effects on the attitudes toward the
political landscape of a given country.
Tasneem

• Conflict Perspective- School is an indoctrinating agent of
that state to perpetuate its political ideology.
• Critical Perspective-Critical theorists contend that the
commonly accepted political cliché's, ideology, principles,
and philosophies must be periodically revisited, redefined,
evaluated, and reframed since they may not hold true
today or may be irrelevant with the passing of time.
Tasneem

5. Research and Dtevelopmen
• Schools are the guardians of the society’s future.
•
• Functional Perspective- Functionalist paradigm believes
that schools assure that dysfunctional knowledge,
attitudes, and skills are replaced by functional ones.
Tasneem

• Conflict Perspective- Conflict theorists believe that the
research agenda of the rich and elite are being
emphasized.
• Critical Perspective- Research, change, and innovation are
the expected functions of schools, yet institutions often
resists change, which affect routine work tasks.
Tasneem

6. Anticipatory Socialization and Training
• Schools play a pivotal role in enabling and guiding
students to reach their potentials so that they could
occupy whatever social and occupational roles they aspire
in the future.
• Functional Perspective- Functionalists contend that
students are taught the tasks essential for maintenance
and survival of society through skills training and
knowledge acquisition .
Tasneem

• Conflict Perspective- Conflict theorists like Bowles and
Gintis (1976) opined that schools are training young people
for their future economic and occupational positions
according to their current social class position.
• Critical Perspective- Neo-Marxists like Bourdieu conceived
schooling in modern industrial society as a means of
preparing docile and discipline workers, which
consequently reproduce the prevailing class differences.
Tasneem

The Relationship between School and Society Schools as social agents and social critics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8OlVs-YvY)

More Related Content

What's hot

Similar to The Relationship between School and Society Schools as social agents and social critics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8OlVs-YvY)

More from Tasneem Ahmad

Recently uploaded

In this document

The Relationship between School and Society Schools as social agents and social critics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8OlVs-YvY)