The sociology of education enables the teachers to explore the schools as social world and it has also certainly made contributions to the field of education. In sociology of education, the teachers will learn about the social stratification and education. It helps them to realise that even students in school are divided according to social class, gender and ethnic and how these three elements will affect their learning in school. ... According to Hargreaves (1980), the culture of teachers has three major concerns, they are the status, competence and social relationships. ... It is a well-kno...

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Human language has the properties of productivity, recursively, and displacement, and relies entirely on social convention and learning. ... This development is sometimes thought to have coincided with an increase in brain volume, and many linguists see the structures of language as having evolved to serve specific communicative and social functions. ... Humans acquire language through social interaction in early childhood, and children generally speak fluently when they are approximately three years old. ... Therefore, in addition to its strictly communicative uses, language also has man...

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