Education Staying home, reading textbooks, and lounging in pajamas, all of these things sound like a great idea. Homeschooling is becoming more and more popular with an estimated 2,000,000 children being homeschooled during the 2010 conventional school year. Many parents are taking on the role of the teacher in a home schooled environment. There are several reasons for the growing popularity of homeschooling such as, religion, test scores, performance, and overall learning achievements. Though homeschooling is ever so popular, it needs to be looked at through a sociological view in order to determine its place in society. Homeschooled children are sometimes considered to not be socialized because they lack contact and interaction with other
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A social institution can be defined as: a major sphere of social life, or societal subsystem, organized to meet human needs (374). In other words, social institutions are set in place to govern and control the behaviors of certain individuals in order to keep organization in a society. Without education, the United states and majority of the world would be in a state of chaos. Education is used to keep people stable and enlightened, without it, people would have no understanding of the economy and government. Many people believe home schooling to be considered a social dysfunction that is disrupting the operation of society. As previously mentioned, some people believe it to be selfish. The recognized, intended, and manifested function of homeschooling is the bettering of the homeschoolers grades and achievements. On the other hand, the unrecognized, unintended, latent functions of homeschooling are the ideas that there will be less funding for public schools and the students being homeschooled will be less socialized. Whether the problems are financial, educational, or governmental, homeschooling can, without a doubt, be considered a social institution. Education is used to keep a balance in the society and without it there would be virtually no other social institutions and chaos would ensue. The rising increase of homeschooling can be looked at in a sociological view in order to obtain the realization behind
A social institution can be defined as: a major sphere of social life, or societal subsystem, organized to meet human needs (374). In other words, social institutions are set in place to govern and control the behaviors of certain individuals in order to keep organization in a society. Without education, the United states and majority of the world would be in a state of chaos. Education is used to keep people stable and enlightened, without it, people would have no understanding of the economy and government. Many people believe home schooling to be considered a social dysfunction that is disrupting the operation of society. As previously mentioned, some people believe it to be selfish. The recognized, intended, and manifested function of homeschooling is the bettering of the homeschoolers grades and achievements. On the other hand, the unrecognized, unintended, latent functions of homeschooling are the ideas that there will be less funding for public schools and the students being homeschooled will be less socialized. Whether the problems are financial, educational, or governmental, homeschooling can, without a doubt, be considered a social institution. Education is used to keep a balance in the society and without it there would be virtually no other social institutions and chaos would ensue. The rising increase of homeschooling can be looked at in a sociological view in order to obtain the realization behind