5th World Conference on Learning, Teaching and Educational Leadership, WCLTA 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, 29 - 31 October 2014, vol.186, pp.381-387
Generally, school is on the top of the centers where educational institutions become concrete and active. Actually, schools are the indispensible part of the general social system of the societies. All kinds of innovations and changes in the society or in the world directly have an effect on education and school in terms of process, organization, structure and functional dimensions. Accordingly, schools cannot be considered independent from the social structure of the society as well as innovations and changes in the world. In order to understand and appraise the structure and function of the school, it is necessary to have an idea on the dynamics of the relational networks and the role of the school in the society Regarding this fact, the present study intends to figure out the function of the school on theoretical and functional bases, its foremost problems and their possible solutions through a sociological perspective. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.