Institutions are viewed as Action Systems in this Social Science Theory in Education.

• Structural – Functional Theory

• Symbolic-Interactional Theory

• Conflict Theory

This theory states that society is made up of various institutions that work together in cooperation – to achieve their orderly relationship and to maintain social order and social stability.

• Structural – Functional Theory

• Symbolic-Interactional Theory

• Conflict Theory

This theory suggests that we use other people as a mirror into which we look to see what we are like.

• Structural – Functional Theory

• Symbolic-Interactional Theory

• Conflict Theory

This theory suggests that one learn what “things” are by observing how other people respond to them through social interaction.

• Structural – Functional Theory

• Symbolic-Interactional Theory

• Conflict Theory

This theory suggests that schools can be viewed into two lense: consensus and conflict.

• Structural – Functional Theory

• Symbolic-Interactional Theory

• Conflict Theory

This social theory emphasized that schools can be a venue for disagreement or clash between opposing ideas, principles, or people that may be covert or overt.

• Structural – Functional Theory

• Symbolic-Interactional Theory

• Conflict Theory

According to him "Human society emerged from its primitive and relatively undifferentiated state it has remained fundamentally divided between classes who clash in the pursuit of class interests."

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

According to him "Modern society is held together by a division of labor that makes individuals dependent upon one another because they specialize in different types of work."

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

According to him "A “social action’” was an action carried out by an individual to which an individual attached a meaning. Therefore, an action that a person does not think about cannot be a social action."

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

This considered as the basic unit of Philippine society and the educational system where the child begins to learn his ABC.

• Religion

• School

• Family

• Government