The role of social factors in education: A case study in social network perspective

Abstract

Education is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. This process of acquiring, adapting and transmitting knowledge depends on so many social factors. Social network analysis is a growing body of research with a great deal of opportunities. The study of social network is a multidisciplinary area involving social, mathematical, statistical and computer sciences. The idea is to map social relations and to look for parameters which will eventually lead to a better understanding of how relations work, information flows and organizations collaborate. This paper is an attempt to understand the impact of social factors in education by the help of a weighted graph and to find how the factors, viz. parents, relatives, teachers, friends, reading materials, visual medias, social medias, homely atmosphere, institutional atmosphere, health conditions, grasping capacity and memory power, that directly or indirectly influence in their education.