Re-approaching Theoretical Patterns of Sociological Space in the Educational Environment (1960-1980)

Abstract

The present paper delves into theoretical and research principles determinant to the development of sociology of education throughout 1960-1980. The productive conceptual discourse is analyzed, as it is conducive to interpreting fields of research which, through sociology, are developed and transform the ideological framework towards the institutional operation of education. Certain schools of thought are selected on the basis of their impact on issues of social environments perception and operation through the mediation of ideas that define the social subject and its construction and reconstruction through education. This time period is emphasized so as to underline the fact that contemporary considerations about the sociology of education are the outcome of concepts formed throughout 1960-1980.  In this respect, a form of dialogue with the past sociology of education is established, as this is also eminent in the present given that sociological theoretical patterns of the period 1960-1980 can operate towards interpreting and understanding currently occurring phenomena.