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ERIC Number: EJ851374
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Dec
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1673-341X
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The Study on the Core Concepts of Contemporary Sociology of Education and Its Theoretical Construction
Qian, Min-hui
Frontiers of Education in China, v1 n4 p549-566 Dec 2006
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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Language: English
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