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UNIT II
SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION

GENDER
1. Gender it defined as the social construction of relations between women and men and
among various groups.
2. Feminist consider gender as the sociocultural manifestation of being a man or woman.
3. Gender is different from Sex.

RACE
Racism consists of both prejudice and discrimination based in social perceptions of
observable biological differences between peoples.

It often takes the form of social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems in
which different races are perceived to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each
other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits and abilities.

ETHNICITY
Ethnic prejudice and discrimination operate much the same as do racial prejudice and
discrimination in society.

Ethnic identification can include shared cultural heritage such as language and dialect,
symbolic systems, religion, mythology and cuisine.

Three Categories to Stratify Nations

• The first world included the U.S and other capitalist nations.

• Communist nations made up the second world.
• Third world was everyone else.

PHYSICAL MOBILITY
Forced relocation of large groups of people, eviction and dispossession of unwanted
people, voluntary permanent migration from one country to another or from one region to
another within the same country, as well as local residential changes.

VOLUNTARY MIGRATION
The voluntary movement of people from one geographical area to another which is
determined by numerous factors.

Reasons for Voluntary Migration

• Economic Factors
• Political Migration
• Religion Liberty
• Educational Opportunities
• National Calamities

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