Social Dimensions of Education

This system copes with the integration function by controlling its component parts.

• Action System

• Personality system

• Social system

• Cultural system

This system performs the latency function by providing actors with the norms and values that motivate them for action

• Action system

• Personality system

• Social system

• Culture system

This perspective is primarily concerned with why a society assumes a particular form. It assumes that any society takes its particular form because that form works well for the society given its particular situation.

• Structuralist perspective

• Functionalist perspective

• Conflict theory

• Consensus theory

The following are the key principles of the functionalist perspective EXCEPT

• Interdependency

• Consensus and cooperation

• Equilibrium

• Action System

One of the most important principles of functionalist theory states that every part of society is dependent to some extent on other parts of society, so that what happens at one place in a society has an important effect elsewhere.

• Interdependency

• Consensus and cooperation

• Equilibrium

• Social Structure and culture

This principle of functionalist perspective states that each part of the social system exists because it serves some function.

• Interdependency

• Functions of Social Structure and Culture

• Consensus and cooperation

• Equilibrium

It is characteristic of a society when it has achieved the form that is best adapted to its situation.

• Interdependency

• Social Structures

• Consensus

• Equilibrium

From this perspective, schooling performs an important function in the development and maintenance of a modern, democratic society, especially with regard to equality of opportunity for all citizens.

• Modern Functionalist Theory

• Interactionist Theories

• Conflict and Consensus Theories

• Behavioral theories

This school of thought views the self as socially constructed in relation to social forces and structures and the product of ongoing negotiations of meanings.

• Functionalism

• Structuralism

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Idealism

An example of this concept is when a teacher and fellow students give you the message that you are 'smart', you will come to think of your self as an intelligent person.

• reflection

• equilibrium

• looking-glass self

• juhari's window