SOCIAL DIMENTIONS OF EDUCATION PRELIM

It is a general or widespread agreement among all members of a particular society

• Conflict

• Consensus

• Mutualism

• Association

This theory focuses on the struggle of social classes to maintain dominance and power in social systems.

• Conflict Theory

• Consensus Theory

• Functionalist Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism

This theory sees shared norms and values as fundamental to society, focus on social order based on tacit agreements, and view social change as occurring in a slow and orderly fashion.

• Conflict Theory

• Consensus Theory

• Structuralism

• Symbolic Interactionism

These theorists ask how schools contribute to the unequal distribution of people into jobs in society and the differential distribution of political and social power.

• Consensus theorists

• Conflict theorists

• Realists

• Behaviorists

These are groups in society with similar interests and positions in the status hierarchy.

• Social class

• Status cultures

• Social System

• Culture system

It is the behavioral organism that handles the adaptation function by adjusting to and transforming the external world.

• action system

• personality system

• social system

• cultural system

According to Parson's AGIL scheme, this performs the goal attainment function by defining system goals and mobilizing resources to attain them.

• Action System

• Personality System

• Social System

• Cultural System

This system copes with the integration function by controlling its component parts.

• Action System

• Personality system

• Social system

• Cultural system

This system performs the latency function by providing actors with the norms and values that motivate them for action

• Action system

• Personality system

• Social system

• Culture system

The following are the key principles of the functionalist perspective EXCEPT

• Interdependency

• Consensus and cooperation

• Equilibrium

• Action System