Sociology and the Education System in America

The definition of Sociology is that it is the study of human societies through the synthesis of theoretical analysis and controlled research, focusing on the social patterns and forces that influence humans.

The study of sociology is the issues, concepts, investigations, and more importantly, the systematic study of relationships among people. While the study of sociology focuses on groups, or society as a whole, it should not exclude an emphasis on individuals because individuals forms groups and groups produce individuals. We cannot study and fully understand one without the other nor can we study them as if they were merely in competition with each other. Rather, sociology is a personal encounter with the social force which shape our lives, especially those that affect our awareness and ignorance of how we create, maintain, and change those very social forces.

In speaking of the systematic study of relationships among people of Sociology, the assumption being that behavior is influenced by social, political, occupational and intellectual groupings and by the particular settings in which individuals find themselves. It is the study of human association and group life. It describes and seeks to explain social processes that give rise to, sustain, and change our social world and us. Some topics in Sociology include conformity and deviance, freedom and transcendence in the social order, stratification, power, race, gender, and social change.

There seems to be obvious differences in the education system all over America. It caters the upper class majority and it is biased to the ones that serve the lower and middle class minority. There is a strong undercurrent of racial inequality in today's school systems that negatively affect the quality of education that its students receive. A schools potential to give a proper education often depends on the perspective economic, and social, or perhaps the racial backgrounds of its students.

Some of the best high schools in the nation often are magnet schools, private schools, or suburban schools that serve the upper class. Although there are usually a small number of minority children who are lucky enough to attend such quality schools, the white children defiantly make up the majority of upper class high school populations.

The differences between public schools and private schools are obvious. In...

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...ators feel that forced school integration would only cause the parents of white children to move their children to other school districts, this is known as white flight.

All over America there are schools that have an unfair disadvantage over others. It seems like the government is either unable to provide every student with an equal opportunity to learn or they just don't care about lower class and middle class minorities enough to try and make a change. It seems as if the government is not willing to step in and help out minority students. The ultimate responsibility for seeing to it that children receive the best education possible falls on the parents’ economic status.

When it comes to equal opportunity and education, in receiving “quality education”, also directly implies studying in a more “quality environment.” This is why the education system should be more equal to everybody. Regardless of the system of the school rather it is private or public, students from upper or lower class do get the same education, just not the same treatment. Private school produces kids that are more presentable, but in no way they are any smarter than kids going to public schools.