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SYLLABUS SUMMARY · SOURCE CHECKED 29 SEP 2026
Education Major, Semester 3
These are checked summaries of the Major papers, not full transcriptions of units and readings. Other course types are listed separately in the source.
EDU-M-T-3 · Sociological Foundation of Education6 credits · 75 marks
- Sociology and educational sociology: meaning, nature, scope and their relationship.
- Social factors: culture and cultural lag, values, unemployment, poverty and inequality, and education’s role in each.
- Social groups: primary, secondary and tertiary groups and comparisons.
- Socialisation: family and school, plus the state, mass media and religion as agencies of education.
- Social change: privatisation, liberalisation, globalisation, stratification and mobility in relation to education.
ORIGINAL PRACTICE · NOT AN OFFICIAL QUESTION PAPER
Study suggestions
Original study prompts, not past questions or exam predictions.
- Culture: Explain cultural lag and give one educational response.
Answer guide
Define lag as uneven rates of social change, identify a concrete example and discuss a teaching response.
- Groups: Compare primary and secondary social groups in a learner’s development.
Answer guide
Contrast their relationships and functions, and give a family or peer and school example.
- Social change: How can education affect social mobility without guaranteeing it?
Answer guide
Distinguish opportunity and access from outcomes; discuss barriers and one practical measure.