COLLABORATED LEARNING

'"EDUCATION AND SOCIETY ARE TWO MIUTUALLY SUPPORTING SYSTEMS ,INTERCONNECTED THAT ONE CANNOT THRIVE IN THE ABSENCE OF THE OTHER".WHAT IS THE REASON?

• EDUCATION SUSTAINS SOCIETY,PRESERVESCULTURE ,USHERS IN NEW ONE AND INCULCATES VALUES

• EDUCATION HELPS TO DO AWAY WITH SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND PRODUCES LEADERS FOR GOVERNANCE

• EDUCATION MAKES PEOPLE EMPLOYABLE

• EDUCATION MODERNIZES AND MAKES SOCIETY CIVILIZED

THE TERM 'SOCIOLOGY' WAS COINED BY

• GEORGE PAYNE

• AUGUSTE COMTE

• OTTAWAY

• BROWN

WHICH ARE THE WORDS COMPOSING THE TERM SOCIOLOGY

• SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY

• SOCIETY AND SCIENCE

• SOCIOUS AND LOGOS

• SOCIOUS AND SCIENCE

APPLICATION OF PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY TO EDUCATION IS KNOWN AS

• EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY

• SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

• SOCIAL FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION

• SOCIAL SCIENCE OF EDUCATION

WHO IS REGARDED AS THE FATHER OF EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY

• GEORGE PAYNE

• BROWN

• EMILE DURKHEIM

• OTTAWAY

EDUCATORS MUST HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDIG OF THE SOCIAL FORCES BECAUSE

• EDUCATION IS A SOCIAL PROCESS

• EDUCATORS ARE SOCIAL BEINGS

• EDUCATION IS INFLUENCED BY SOCIAL FORCES

• EDUCATION IS ONE OF THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED ON IN THE SOCIAL SETTING AMIDST SOCIAL FORCES

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF DISABILITY HAS YET ANOTHER DIMENSION. THERE IS A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DISABILITY AND POVERTY. MALNUTRITION, MOTHERS WEAKENED BY FREQUENT CHILD BIRTH, INADEQUATE IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMMES, AND ACCIDENT IN OVERCROWDED HOMES, ALL CONTRIBUTE TO AN INCIDENCE OF DISABILITY AMONG POOR PEOPLE THAT IS HIGHER THAN AMONG PEOPLE LIVING IN EASIER CIRCUMSTANCES . HOW ARE THE DIFFERENTLY-ABLED RENDERED DISABLED?

• SOCIALLY: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS AND ASSUMPTIONS

• POVERTY:THEIR ECONOMIC INCAPABILITY

• ACCIDENTLY: IT OCCURS DUE TO SOME ACCIDENT

• BIOLOGICALLY:THEY ARE BORN LIKE THAT

ASSERTIONS OF TRIBAL IDENTITY ARE ON THE RISE.THIS CAN BE LAID AT THE DOOR OF EMERGENCE OF A MIDDLE CLASS WITHIN THE TRIBAL SOCIETY. WITH THE EMERGENCE OF THIS CLASS IN PARTICULAR, ISSUES OF CULTURE ,TRADITION, LIVELIHOOD AND EVEN CONTROL OVER LAND AND RESOURCES AS WELL AS DEMANDS FOR A SHARE IN THE BENEFITS OF THE PROJECTS OF MODERNITY, HAVE BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE ARTICUATION OF IDENTITY AMONG THE TRIBES. THERE IS, THEREFORE A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG TRIBES NOW, COMING FROM ITS MIDDLE CLASSES.THE MIDDLE CLASSES THEMSELVES ARE A CONSEQUENCE OF MODERN EDUCATION AND MODERN OCCUPATIONS, AIDED IN TURN BY THE RESERVATION POLICIES. Q. WHAT GAVE RISE TO A MIDDLE CLASS AMONG THE TRIBES?

• INCOME

• EDUCATION

• RESERVATION POLICIES

• RESERVATION POLICIES AND EDUCATION

THE EXTENDED FAMILY OFTEN IS SEEN AS SYMPTOMATIC OF INDIA. YET THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE DOMINANT FORM NOW OR EARLIER. IT WAS CONFINED TO CERTAIN SECTIONS AND CERTAIN REGIONS OF THE COMMMUNITY. INDEED THE TERM 'JOINT FAMILY 'ITSELF NOT A NATIVE CATEGORY. AS I.P. DESAI OBSERVES "THE EXPRESSION 'JOINT FAMILY 'IS NOT THE TRANSLATION OF ANY INDIAN WORD LIKE THAT. IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THE WORDS USED FOR THE JOINT FAMILY IN MOST OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGES ARE THE EQUIVALENTS OF TRANSLATIONS OF THE ENGLISH WORD 'JOINT FAMILY''.

Q.THERE ARE CERTAIN KINDS OF CHANGES THAT CHANGE THE FAMILY STRUCTURE . APART FROM THE STRUCTURE ,WHAT ELSE DOES IT CHANGES?

• FAMILY NORMS

• CULTURAL IDEAS

• FAMILY VALUES

• CULTURAL IDEAS,FAMILY NORMS AND VALUES

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT DOES NOT IMPLY THAT EDUCATION IS AN INSTRUMENT OF CULTURAL DIFFUSION ?

• PRESERVES CULTURE THROUGH FORMAL AND INFORMAL WAYS

• TRANSMITS CULTURAL NORMS , VALUES AND IDEAS TO YOUNG GENERATIONS

• PREACHES CULTURAL NORMS, VALUES AND IDEAS TO YOUNGER GENERATION

• INTERPRETS CULTURE AND PERPETUATES THE SOCIAL HERITAGE