A Review Paper on Sociological Perspectives of Leadership regards to Education

Abstract

The leadership mostly roots in sociology and it looks the leadership through different sociological paradigms. This paper confined the sociological paradigm of leadership as a structural functionalist (stable process), constructivist (is built), political conflict (power relationship) and critical humanistic perspective (dignity and worth) respectively. Hence, this study intends to layout the sociological perspectives of leadership in association with education. For this purpose, this paper reviewed the literature associated with a sociological paradigm of educational leadership. Considering it, these paradigms focused on social integration and consensus process (structural functionalism), facilitates the learning process (constructivism), power disparities (politico-conflict), and social commits to organizational change (critical humanistic) in context of school education. Overall, the particular one perspective is not fully suitable for all situations so leaders must adopt these perspective accords to the particular state of affairs in the organization. That's why these all sociological perspective has its distinct implications in educational leadership.