Sociology of education is a discipline based on social science, which studies educational phenomena, educational problems and their relationship with society. It is an important branch of educational science.

Education:

Education in a narrow sense refers to specially organized school education; Broadly speaking, it refers to social practice activities that affect people's physical and mental development. Latin educare is the source of the word "education" in the west, which means "education".

Educators carry out purposeful, systematic and organized education and training on the mental development of educatees according to laws, regulations and industry norms, according to school conditions and professional titles, and use existing experience and knowledge to teach people, explain various phenomena, problems or behaviors for them, and improve their practical ability. Basically, it is to look at things with a relatively mature or rational thinking.

In it, people gradually moved from the touch of the senses to the state of cognitive understanding, forming a relatively perfect or rational conscious thinking. But at the same time, people have self-conscious thinking and their own sensory dimensions, so the conscious thinking of any education is not necessarily absolutely correct, but should understand the direction of their thinking in a perceptual way, as long as it does not deviate from the inherent essence of things.

Definition:

In the field of education, there are various definitions of "education", which can be said that different people have different opinions. Generally speaking, people define "education" from two different angles, one is the social angle and the other is the individual angle.

The former Soviet Union and China generally define "education" from a social perspective, while educators in Britain and the United States generally define education from an individual perspective. Defining "education" from a social perspective can be divided into different levels.

Generalized:

All activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and affect people's ideology and morality are education. "Education" is regarded as a subsystem in the whole social system, which distributes and undertakes certain social functions.

The most essential understanding of education is the knowledge instillation and behavior guidance of people's thoughts by society; First, the object of education is people; Second, the content must be benign and meaningful. So that people can transform society.

Narrow sense:

Refers to the spiritual sublimation of individuals. This definition emphasizes the influence of social factors on individual development. Defining "education" from an individual perspective often equates education with the process of individual learning or development.

In a narrow sense:

It mainly refers to school education, which refers to the activities that educators exert influence on the body and mind of the educated in a purposeful, planned and organized way according to the requirements of a certain society or class, and cultivate them into people needed by a certain society or class. This mainly refers to the exam-oriented education in China campus.