1. FOUNDATIONS OF
EDUCATION
Introduction to Sociological Foundations
Social Stratification /Social Status / Mobility

2. WHAT IS THE RELATION OF
SOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATION TO
EDUCATION?
 The sociological foundations are concerned with the
human relation’s factor-the behavior of individuals
and their relations to each other.

3. SOCIETY, SOCIALIZATION AND
STRATIFICATION

4. WHAT IS SOCIETY?
 Derived from the Latin word “socios” or “socialis” –
meaning fellow, companion, or associate.
 A group of individuals with well defined limits which
persists in time, thus enabling them to develop a
set of common ideas, attitude, norms, and
sanctions, interaction, and of techniques for living
and fitting together (human arrangements)
 Formed based on man’s gregariousness or the
tendency or desire of people to be with other
people.

5.  An organized group of population.
 Composed of human beings and the institutions by which
live together in the culture.
 Consists of all the people who share a district and
continuos way of life, and think of themselves as one
united people.
 A social group that occupies territory, recruit its members
by inter-group sexual production, and has a shared
comprehensive culture.
 A group of organized individuals who think of themselves
a district group, who have something in common, a set of
loyalties and sentiments .

6. CONCEPTS OF A GROUP
 A unit of interesting personalities with varies roles and
status among members.
 A unit of interacting personalities with an
interdependence of roles and status existing between or
among the members.
 A number of people at a given time, interrelated and
interact with one another with common shared attitudes,
sentiments, aspirations, and goals.

7. KINDS/CLASSIFICATION OF GROUPS
1. Primary Group
- intimate personal or face-to-face relationship.
2. Secondary Group
- impersonal, contractual, business.

8. OTHER GROUP CLASSIFICATION
ACCORDING TO SELF-IDENTIFICATION
 In-group
 Out-group
 Peer-group
- play group
- gang
- Clique

9.  Reference Group
 Voluntary Association
*Three Main Types of Voluntary Associations*
1. Personal interest groups
2. Social service groups
3. Political action group

10. STRATIFICATION
 The system or process of assigning individuals their
respective ranks in a society based on income or
wealth, education, and life style.
 The classification of group members according to
certain criteria differ due to the nature of the group.
 A system by which a society ranks categories of
people in hierarchy.

11. SOCIALIZATION
 Mean function of society where in patterns of
behavior and aspects of personality are inculcated.
 The process whereby the individual acquires the
social and cultural heritage of his society.
 The process of entering the human group, of being
included into the secrets of the society.

12. STATUS
• one of the basic building blocks of social
interaction.
• The position assigned by a person in a group or
organization.

13. STATUS SET
 To all statuses a person holds at a particular time.

14. TYPES OF STATUSES
 Ascribed – acquired or receive at birth.
 Achieved – assumed voluntary and that reflects a
significant measure of personal ability and choice,
realized through hard work, talent, merit.
 Master status – a social position with exceptional
importance for identity, often shaping a person’s
entire life.

15. SOCIAL MOBILITY
 The movement of a person from one status or
social class to another.
 May be achieved through such factors as
education, good works, wealth, increased income,
occupation, sex, and beauty, and other means.

16. THANK YOU ;P
Reporter:
MS. DIANA M. TORIO