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UNIT II
SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

Any activity that takes a lot of time inevitably has a substantial socializing effect. When the
person putting in time is young, the effect is more profound, since the adaptive conduct learned
and socialization is essentially a form of learning is less likely to be contradicted by previous
knowledge. Thus, schools have important socializing effects.
It may surprise you that their effects are not necessarily good. In fact, modern schools often do
a poor job of socializing students to effective adulthood. I will illustrate with specific examples,
but also mention some good things that are happening. First, however, I want to analyze briefly
the nature of adulthood in modern society, because we need an image of what an adult should
be like in order to tell whether schools are producing bad or good effects.

The Importance of Language in Socialization

Utilizing language to speak with others is essential for full support in social groups. The child's
procurement of speech reflects both the development of the vital perceptual and motor skills and
the effect of social learning.

3 Components of Language
· Phonology
· Lexicon
· Grammar

Young children seem to gain these in succession, first acing important sounds, at that point
learning words, lastly learning sentences. As a general rule, procuring speech is a procedure
that includes every one of the three in the meantime and proceeds all through childhood.
Language securing in the first 3years goes through four stages.

Stages of Language Acquisition

· Prespeech
· Vocalization

· Vocabulary
· Grammaticization

Prespeech

The prespeech stage goes on for around 10 months and includes speech recognition, speech
creation, and early purposeful correspondence. In the first couple of long stretches of life, infants
can see the greater part of the speech sounds. They start delivering sounds at 2 to 3 months
and start creating sounds particular to their parents' language at 4 to 7 months. Speech creation
includes impersonation of the sounds they hear.

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