ABSTRACT
John Dewey was one of the first to appreciate the essential relationship between the school and society. He had observed that the old simple life and the village community were inevitably breaking down, and that social structures generally were changing. The development of what was at first termed 'educational sociology' was slow but steady; a number of textbooks appeared, and in 1927 the Journal of Educational Sociology was founded by E. Payne. From 1940 onwards he was invited to lecture part-time at the Institute of Education of London University, and in 1946 he was appointed to the Chair of Education. Social education was the planned use of a wide variety of social forces and institutions in order to create the democratic personality-type necessary to guarantee social integration in a reconstituted society. The sociology of education is a discipline with which both sociologists and educationists are concerned, and to which both have something valuable to contribute.
