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Class Integration Of Cultural Sociology To Explain

Posted on:2008-04-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207360215953788Subject:Principles of Education
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According to functionalism, the class must be a highly integrated collection to amplify its social function .The class integration has the important significance for the class construction. On the visual angle of social culture, this paper analyses the movement of culture hiding behind the class integration with constructing an analytical framework centralizing with the culture. Three types of culture are drawouted from the daily life at school, which act with the different mechanism. The institutional culture including the convention and the institution achieves integration by means of the restriction and the punishment. The semiotical culture including the daily ceremony and the collective consciousness is a set of shared sign system, which achieves integration by value being shared. The structural culture is a set of norm, value and the acting, which communicate with each other in conflict. This three types of culture interweave with each other, which affect the class integration.This paper describes the situation of integration in a normal school by the educational ethnography method. The paper shows the actuality of the student daily life under the net of three types of the culture and shows how the class integration is constructed under the power of the three types of the culture by the author deeply describing the class affairs. Using the depth interview method, the author pays more attention to the different interpret of different students and how the interpret affects the students' action. Different students' living circumstances, their value and subjective consciousness are also exposited. This paper shows the meaning to the class integration which the dynamic culture system as a whole makes.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ethnography, Class integration, Cultural Sociology
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