Definition of Educational Sociology By: Showkeen Bilal Ahmad Gul, Department of Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P (India) According to Showkeen Bilal Ahmad Gul, “Educational sociology is an applied part of sociology which designs education as per the social norms.” Description: Educational sociology is a branch of discipline of sociology which studies the problems of relationship between society and education. It evolved as a discipline designed to prepare educators for their future tasks. It uses the results of sociological researches in planning educational activities and in developing effective methods of realizing these plans. Francis Brown considered that, ―All education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race. He defined educational sociology as that discipline which applied the general principles and findings of sociology to the process of education. Educational sociology is by definition a discipline which studies education sociologically, with the premise that it recognizes education as a social fact, a process and an institution, having a social function and being determined socially. It is the application of sociological principles and methods to the solution of problems in an educational system.
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