SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION

What is the sociology of education? Conceptual delimitations School functions. Manifest functions. The role defined for educational institutions in the global social system The latent functions of the school. Cultural content transmitted by the school that is not among the explicit objectives Education and social change. The relationship between human capital development and economic development Differences between d.p.d.v cohorts of socio-professional trajectory and diploma capitalization Globalization and massification of education. Causal patterns Case study: the massification of education in Romania and some macrosocial effects for the period 1995-2007 Education as an investment; the relationship between the level of education and socio-economic success School as a vector of social mobility from a functionalist and conflictualist perspective. Social inequality and inequality of opportunity. Conceptual clarifications, operationalization and measurement methods Models of intervention aimed at reducing inequality of opportunity at macro and microsocial level. The Euro-American experience School achievement at the intersection of family and endogenous factors (intelligence, motivation, study involvement) Theories aimed at the social determination of educability 1 Society and education at Pierre Bourdieu Theories aimed at the social determination of educability 2 Basil Bernstein's theory of linguistic codes

Understanding the issue of the sociology of education, the concepts with which it operates and the ways in which the results of research in this field can be used in social practice