BA in Social Sciences OUSL batch 2021

Sociology of Education – Session 1

What does it consider?

It examines how education as a social institution functions within society. It explores how education is influenced by, and in turn influences, other social institutions such as the family, economy, religion, culture, and the state.

It also looks at the two-way relationship between education and these institutions—how they shape education and how education impacts them.

Sociologists of education study how knowledge is transmitted, how learning takes place in different social contexts, and how education is interpreted from a sociological perspective.

Topic for coming up Weeks is Sociology of Education

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Media Freedom as a Human Right part 2

Today human rights are inherent to all human beings regardless of their nationality, gender, ethnicity or any other status.

Key rights

Right to live
Education
Freedom of expression
Question and protest against government misdeeds
Freedom of movement
Freedom of selecting a religion and religious practices
Access to information
Freedom of speech
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Constitution of a country guarantees the human rights of the citizens
The supreme court interprets the constitution and ensures its propper implementation

Media Freedom as a Human Right (part 1)

In the history societies faced inequality, such as women being denied equal rights or certain groups of people being discriminated based on their
skin colour
Caste
S*x
Religion
Ethnicity
Geographical location or ather social and cultural factors

Examples

Apartheid in South Africa
Caste based discrimination in Sri Lanka
World war II

Recognizing human rights in theory is not enough, but practical implementation is essential

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What is hegemonic power?
Who is the pinior of this theory?

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What is acculturation
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Saartjie Baartman and Ota Benga lived in Human Zoos as exhibits at World fairs. They are recognized as savages and destroyed the human rights of black people during that period.

Wild man

Charles and Brenda Seligman visited Sri Lanka to study Vedda community

Robert Knox mentioned Veddhas in his book

2. Early Studies of the Primitive & exotic

Travelers/Explorers and Missionaries

Edward Sullivan
Rev. James Cordiner

Ethnologists

Madison Grant

Anthropologists

Edward Taylor
James Frazer
Bronislow Malinowski (participation observations)

Unilinealism - gradual progression from primitive to civilization. This is one directory trajection

Discourses of understanding culture

1. Culture as cultivation - Pierre Bourdieu
2. Culture as meaning - Clifford Geertz
3. Culture as difference - Claud Levi- Strauss
4. Culture as flow - Arjun Appadurai

Society - grouping of human beings that interact eachother based on common characteristics. Sometimes that grouping can be based on specific geographical territory, share a social structure or based on common interests that can cross geographical and national boundaries.

1. Introduction to Sri Lankan society and Culture

Discourse, Power, Exclusions and Erasure

🌟 Discourse is something that we make as choices, the way we behave, and the things we create. According to Michele Foucault discourse as a system of thought composed of
💡ideas
💡attitudes
💡 actions
💡 beliefs and
💡 practices that constitutes subjects and are in turn constituted by them

The important thing about discourse is it can produce and limit truth
That's how power legitimised as power operates through inclusions and exclusions.

The traditions, practices and also some norms are formed as discourses. Those are long term practices that certain communities exercise over a long time period. We cannot either neglect nor refuse as we get use to them as a practice

Accordingly, certain things got erasure in society with the time may be willingly or unwillingly

Ex- Tamils started to use sinhala names to avoid discrimination