The study on the core concepts of contemporary sociology of education and its theoretical construction |
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Authors: | Min-hui Qian |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China |
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Abstract: | Within the sphere of contemporary social sciences, the terms “modernity,” “post-modernity” and “globalization” have penetrated,
as the core concepts, into various fields of social sciences in a logical way. In constituting the concept of “modernity,”
sociology of education develops the educational theory, as sociological theory does, into a “grand narrative” and “foundationalist”
theory; the contribution of post-modernity is pluralism and self-examination in an attempt to transcend modernity. Globalization,
a kind of expanded modernity, makes education sociologists broaden their perspective from single and traditional “nationality,”
“society” and “nation” to an international society and even to the global society, which has broken through the research paradigm
of modernity with ethnocentrism, anthropocentrism and Euro-centrism. These changes have required urgent constitution of the
conceptions and theoretical frameworks of sociology of education to be applied on a global level.
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Translated from Peking University Education Review, 2006 (1) |
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Keywords: | sociology of education core concept modernity post-modernity globalization |
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