By: Nor Shadiqah
Departement : Islamic Education (UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang 2010)
- Background of the Study
In the ancient time and the Middle Ages, formal education was in the monopoly of the higher-social class and accessible to the noblemen. But, after the enlightenment age formal education has been greatly developed. Education became popular and some governments in their educational program and performance pay more attention on human’s right and low-social class of society and hope this class to be covered by education, and also want to prove the motto of “education for all”.
If we compare ourselves with any person in our society we may find someone of the same age, weight, height, nationality, income, and even lifestyle as we are. However, we do not live in identical environments. Our diversity is determined by natural factors, such as individual, professional, educational, cultural circumstance, and social-class.1
The families, schools, and neighborhoods of children have social class characteristics. Some children have parents who have a great deal of money, high education, and who work in prestigious occupations, such as manager of the factories, lecturers, professors, and so forth. These children live in attractive houses and neighborhoods. Other children have parents who do not have very much money and who work in less prestigious occupations, such as public transport driver, farmworker, housemaid, and so forth. These children do not live in very attractive houses and neighborhoods.
Social-class is the citizen or society discrimination into hierarchy classes. And the realization of it; there are higher and lower-classes. The basic and the core of this social-stratum in society are caused by human rights and obligations distribution imbalance, and responsibility on the social values. In the beginning, social-stratums in society are based on the sex discrimination, discrimination between race and ethnic, differentiation between leader and division of labor and as it. In a little and simple society only found few of social class, but in a complex and advance society there are a lot of social class.2 Human life usually full of with the difference status. There are many things are praised by human in their society, such as wealth or money, power or function, science, religiousness piety, and may be descendant from respected family.3 Continue reading





