Sociology of education belongs to the third-level discipline under the principle of 040 1 pedagogy, and belongs to 04 pedagogy. Most studies focus on education-related issues with sociological research methods. Many concepts such as stratification, class and field are borrowed from sociology. The research issues include school selection and school selection, gender and education, rural education, curriculum sociology, educational evaluation and so on.
Many reading materials have something in common with sociology, such as Foucault's Discipline and Punishment, Mills's Sociological Imagination, Willis's Learning to Work, Bourdieu's Reproduction, Bernstein's Inheritance and Education, and Symbol Control and Identity.