Education is enjoying a resurgence of interest globally owing to its seminal importance in shaping societies, economies and people's lives. The present volume attempts a sociological approach to the study of education in Indian situation. It is an authoritative study of education in the context of total society and its sub-systems such as family, polity, economy and stratification, local community and social groups like educational institution and classroom as well as in the context of social change and problems of education of the scheduled castes and tribes. The book, which offers fresh sociological insights, is a very useful contribution to the literature and should be of value to a wide range of practitioners and academics. This book mainly focuses following topics, Conceptual clarity, Relationship between society, Education and Development, Relations between socialization and Education, Agencies of socialization and Education: Family, Peer Groups, School and Meida, Concept of Equality of Educational Opportunity, Education and Disparities: Caste. Class, tribe, gender, rural-urban, Education and social mobility, School education: Existing scenario, Higher Education in India, Governance of Higher Education: Institutional programmes, National Educational policy
