PERANAN PENDIDIKAN DALAM PERUBAHAN MASYARAKAT

Abstract

Social classification is always happenned in the society called
by social stratification and determine someone’s social class.  There is a strict or curt, then to determine someone’s social class depends on the  parents  or  the  child’s  birth.  And  it  happened  in India  where  the society consists of levels or castes or in the kingdom state, for example if wants to be a king, he must be the king’s child. While in the open
society such as a state that adheres to a democracy system, to determine someone’s  social class  with  any  ways,  means  that there  is  always a change for someone’s social class in a society, namely the bottom, to the middle or up or reverse by using an objective method, subjective and  reputation.  Then in this  open  society, the education  role is  very influential toward the social class change in the society. That is why the education is hoped to bring the society to a change, even their income
result  or  their  position  in  the  society,  which  is  certainly  give  the cognitive and psychomotoric ability or education is able to produce an inteligent  human  beings  also  expert  in  his  field.  In  other  words, education is hoped to create humans development that is finally able to make a change in the society, even social class change or a change from the traditional society to the modern one.

Key words: social class, stratifications, education, social change