Chapter Two
Education and Social Change
Having examined the different sociological perspectives it is now necessary to place education within a wider social context and to see precisely how it has been affected by social change. It is important to note two factors here: firstly, that education is probably more likely to be affected by social forces than it is to be a force for change, although this does not preclude education from being an agent in structural change; secondly, that change is the norm in society and stasis is no more than a heuristic model in the study of society. Hence, one of the major criticisms of the structural functional model of society is that it is orientated towards an analysis of the status quo and that it gives little ...
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