Answer to Question #118362 in Sociology for Audrey

Question

Discuss the social theory and the assumptions that it holds with regard to teaching and learning.

Answer 1

Correct answer is:Social theory refers to ideas, arguments, hypotheses, thought-experiments and explanatory speculations about how and why human societies come to be formed, change, and develop over time or disappear. As a core component of the discipline of sociology, social theory most commonly encompasses the range of explanatory concepts, analytical tools, and heuristic devices on which sociologists and social scientists draw in their efforts to interpret statistical or qualitative data about particular empirical social phenomena. 

The assumption it holds are:human beings are social creatures and social learning strategies that should be utilized when teaching, knowledge is demonstrated through competence, learning is a matter of participating and active engagement with the world and learning produces meaning and makes engagement with the world meaningful.