Marxist Theoreticval and Methodological Approach and Orientation in the Sociology of Education
Marxist Theoreticval and Methodological Approach and Orientation in the Sociology of Education

Summary/Abstract: The paper first states that there are two dominant theoretical-methodological approaches and orientations in the sociology of education, namely, the functionalist and the Marxist ones. It also states that nowadays papers with other orientations are more often to be found, including the structuralist, the existentialist, the interactionist, the liberalist, the ethno-methodological, the analytical, and others. The introduction briefly gives an explanation while, at the same time, it makes a distinction between the theoretical orientations and the methodological approaches. The core of the paper gives, in summary, an explanation of six elements of the Marxist theoretical-methodological approach and orientation or of the historical-dialectical materialism, as this teaching came to be called in philosophy and science. The initial framework implies the assumption that education is socially-conditioned and that it has a class character in the class society. Further, the teaching about man and his nature, stating that he is a creative, active and practical being, is presented together with the teaching about the humanist character of education. Finally, the teaching about the importance of education for the reproduction of a particular socio-economic system as well as the reproduction of its respective ideology is stressed.

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