Curriculum in Schools. S. choolisaboutlearningthevalues,norms,rituals,symbols,and. designated knowledge of the dominant groups in power in any. particular society.There are always many histories that exist in any. given nation, and all of them are not always recognized or taught in. the schools.
The thoughts of Auguste Comte (1798-1857), who coined the term sociology, while dated and riddled with weaknesses, continue in many ways to be important to contemporary sociology.
Formal institutionalization of sociology as an academic discipline began when Emile Durkheim founded the first French department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895. In 1896, he established the journal L'Annee AnnÃ©e. sociologique