Sociology of Education

2024/2025

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент образовательных программ

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

2-й курс, 1 модуль

Преподаватель

Павленко Екатерина Сергеевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

On this course we will talk about how sociological perspective is specific and how it is different from other disciplines. We will practically explore what it means to look at education through sociological lense. We will work with large-scale theories as well as with latest empirical research. It will allow us to see how theoretical frameworks are embedded in empirical research and how the connection with framworks is reflected in the research results. By the end of the course, you will develop an initial ability to differentiate sociological framworks and extract them in empirical research.

Learning Objectives

• Learn to identify and distinguish the sociological view of education from other disciplinary frameworks
• Learn to identify and distinguish between separate theoretical frameworks within the sociological view of education
• Learn to illustrate a sociological approach to a research question with examples, with reference to academic studies
• Learn to operate key theoretical concepts and design a study using them

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Defines and distinguishes the sociological view of education from other disciplinary frameworks
• Illustrates the sociological approach to the research question with examples, with references to academic studies
• Defines and distinguishes separate theoretical frameworks within the sociological view of education
• Operates key theoretical concepts and designs research using them

Course Contents

• Sociology as a Science and Education as the Subject of Its Study
• Social determinism and Functionalism
• Interactionism and Constructivism
• Post-colonial sociology
• Understanding sociology and interpretation
• Critical and action-oriented approaches to educational research
• Ethnography of Education and Action Research

Assessment Elements

• Active participation during lectures
• Final Essay
• Seminar participation
• Written Homework
  Each homework is graded out of 10 points. Late submission reduces the point by 0,1 each day.

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 учебный год 1 модуль
  0.1 * Active participation during lectures + 0.4 * Final Essay + 0.2 * Seminar participation + 0.3 * Written Homework

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• A contemporary introduction to sociology : culture and society in transition, , 2018
• Alexander, J. C., Thompson, K., & Edles, L. D. (2016). Contemporary Introduction to Sociology : Culture and Society in Transition (Vol. Second edition). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1140200
• Collins, R. (2019). The Credential Society : An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification. New York: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2087960
• Contemporary sociological theory and its classical roots : the basics, Ritzer, G., 2019
• Erving Goffman : a critical introduction to media and communication theory, Winkin, Y., 2013
• G.H. Mead: a reader, Mead, G. H., 2012
• Garfinkel and ethnomethodology, Heritage, J., 2008
• Garfinkel, H., & Rawls, A. W. (2002). Ethnomethodology’s Program : Working Out Durkheim’s Aphorism. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=633351
• Grusky, D. B., & Weisshaar, K. R. (2018). Social Stratification : Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective (Vol. Fourth edition). New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1808213
• Heritage, J. (1984). Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=607982
• Sociological theory in the digital age, Ignatow, G., 2020
• Symbolic interactionism : an introduction, an iterpretation, an integration, Charon, J. M., 2001
• The sociological imagination, Mills, C. W., 2000

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• George Herbert Mead's concept of society : a critical reconstruction, Cote, J.- F., 2015
• Handbook on social stratification in the BRIC countries : change and perspective, , 2013
• Social stratification : class, race, and gender in sociological perspective, , 2014
• Sociological theory in the contemporary era : text and readings, Appelrouth, S., 2016
• The global society : an introduction to sociology, Cockerham, W. C., 1995
• The Goffman reader, , 1997
• Understanding inequalities : stratification and difference, Platt, L., 2011

Authors

• PAVLENKO EKATERINA SERGEEVNA