Sociology of Education: Key Concepts and Spanish System

Sociology and Education: Key Concepts

1. Sociology and Examples in the Field: Sociology considers how professors in the current school or educational system can possibly transmit the knowledge of democracy.

2. Sociological Perspective, According to Berger: Berger defines sociology as the attempt to understand society in a scientific manner, according to clearly defined rules. Education is constituted by the stretch of meanings and expectations that enable people to mutually orient their actions, move, and interact with each other.

3. Different Parts of Society that Interact in the Educational System: There are three parts: 1) an introductory part, 2) the study of the interaction between the educational system and subsystems, and social structure as a whole or its parts, and 3) a focus on studying school system performance.

4. School Dimensions: We usually admit that there is a theoretical and practical side. It's important to note that among teachers of different subjects, there is often a lack of convenient knowledge. The most common approach is the shared responsibility for the education of students as core objectives.

5. Didactic Dimension: This refers to the teaching methods and content transmission leading to effective learning and good grades.

6. Differences Between Praxis and Poiesis: Both praxis and poiesis involve doing something to build something. Poiesis is to realize any product, while praxis is to realize some good that is morally valuable.

7. Three Models of Teaching Progression: The practical, technical-academic, and hermeneutic-reflexive approaches.

8. Contribution of Sociology Related to School Practice: Its ability to display products that are social constructs, which can be transformed by human activity.

9. What is Sociology?: It is a science that attempts to describe and explain social phenomena, that is, those related to the interaction and grouping of human beings.

10. What is Socialization?: The process by which we learn to be members of society, internalizing science, norms, and values, and learning to perform our social roles.

Further Sociological Concepts and the Spanish System

11. Types of Society: There are six types: segmental, estate, class-based, authoritarian, and democratic.

12. Segmentary Societies: Small-sized societies organized from nomadic groups. Mode of production, coercion, and legitimization.

13. Social Structure - Key Factors: The main factors are gender, class, and ethnicity.

14. Cultural Change: These are changes in languages, beliefs, values, and social norms.

15. Social Change: These are changes in social roles and networks. They increase or decrease in number, alter their practices, and ultimately result in a restructuring of the distribution of social power.

16. Most Important Contribution of Sociologist Auguste Comte: He proposes the extension of a positive school serving the superiority of positive philosophy, that is, in order to overcome all its aspects, which will be prioritized.

Key Figures and Models in Education

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18. What is the "Black Response"?: These are some reports purporting to demonstrate that the initiation of the information society processing of Coleman and Jencks served no purpose.

19. Who are Jencks and Coleman?: Two sociologists who wished to initiate the transformation of industrial society to the information society. The Coleman report is "Equality of Educational Opportunity," and Jencks' is "Inequality."

20. Copyright and Fundamental Work on Dialogue: The authors are Habermas, whose work is "Theory of Communicative Action"; Bernstein, with "The Theory of Pedagogic Discourse"; and Apple and Giroux.

21. Models of the Education System in Spain: Scholastic system, liberal education, Franco's educational model.

22. Models from 1985: Social-democratic model and comprehensive reform of the LODE and LOGSE. Quality as the hub of educational reforms, known as the school explosion.