Sociology of education
Sociology of education, Sociology of education refers to the discipline which attempts to analyze systematically the sociological aspects process and patterns occurring within the education phenomena, according to Singh, (1992) defined the sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is most concerned with the public schooling systems including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing education. It is a philosophical as well as a sociological concept, denoting ideologies, curricula, and pedagogical techniques of the inculcation and management of knowledge and the social reproduction of personalities and cultures. Brookover and Gottlieb consider that “this assumes education is a combination of social acts and that sociology is an analysis of human interaction.” Educational process goes on in a formal as well as in informal situations. Sociological analysis of the human interaction in educ...