Within the sphere of contemporary social sciences,the terms“modernity,”“post-modernity”and“globalization”have penetrated,as the core concepts,into various fields of social sciences in a logical way.In constituti...Within the sphere of contemporary social sciences,the terms“modernity,”“post-modernity”and“globalization”have penetrated,as the core concepts,into various fields of social sciences in a logical way.In constituting the concept of“modernity,”sociology of education develops the educational theory,as sociological theory does,into a“grand narrative”and“foundationalist”theory;the contribution of post-modernity is pluralism and self-examination in an attempt to transcend modernity.Globalization,a kind of expanded modernity,makes education sociologists broaden their perspective from single and traditional“nationality,”“society”and“nation”to an international society and even to the global society,which has broken through the research paradigm of modernity with ethnocentrism,anthropocentrism and Euro-centrism.These changes have required urgent constitution of the conceptions and theoretical frameworks of sociology of education to be applied on a global level.展开更多
文摘Within the sphere of contemporary social sciences,the terms“modernity,”“post-modernity”and“globalization”have penetrated,as the core concepts,into various fields of social sciences in a logical way.In constituting the concept of“modernity,”sociology of education develops the educational theory,as sociological theory does,into a“grand narrative”and“foundationalist”theory;the contribution of post-modernity is pluralism and self-examination in an attempt to transcend modernity.Globalization,a kind of expanded modernity,makes education sociologists broaden their perspective from single and traditional“nationality,”“society”and“nation”to an international society and even to the global society,which has broken through the research paradigm of modernity with ethnocentrism,anthropocentrism and Euro-centrism.These changes have required urgent constitution of the conceptions and theoretical frameworks of sociology of education to be applied on a global level.
