Unit-I: Sociological Perspectives of Education

• Concept of sociology and educational sociology
• Relationship between sociology and education
• Educational sociology: nature, scope, function, and its importance
• Social Organization: Concept and factors of influence
• Dynamic characteristics of social organizations and their Educational Implications.

Unit-II: Functions of Education for Social Change

• Social change: Meaning, nature and impact on Modernization, Development and Technology.
• Relationship between Education and social change.
• Factors (agencies) promoting social change: Family, religion, school and media.
• Social stratification: Meaning, nature, types and factors
• Social change and impact of Modernization , Technology and DevelopmentPrinciples of teaching and learning in a multicultural society.
• Education for peaceful co-existence.

Unit-III: Role of Education for Socialization

• Concept and nature of socialization.
• Role of education in the process of socialization.
• Agents of socialization: family, school, religion, community, politics, culture, and economy.
• Education as a social system, as a social process and a process of social progress.
• Socialization and Caste, Class, Language, Religion, population and regionalism.

Unit-IV: Current trends and impact of Education: Democracy,  LPG,  Social mobility and allied issues

• Education and Democracy: Concept of secularism and its Educational implications.
• Globalization and privatization: Concept, Overview of their impact on education and society.
• Politicization of education: political control, interference in the institutional administration.
• Education as a potential equalizing social force: Equality of educational opportunities.
• Meaning, factors and types in social mobility: Role of education in social mobility.
• Education for socially and economically disadvantaged section of society with special reference to: Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, Women, Transgender and Rural population.