Educational policy sociology is an academic discipline of exploring
comprehensively and systematically social actions and relationships and
organizational structures and functions in education from the macro, micro,
structural approaches. The research topics are included the historicity and
regularity of educational policy making and implementation, the actions and
patterns of educational policy change, the structural and functional change
of teaching profession caused by educational policies, and the interpretations
and responses of schools to educational policies. The research are done by
using one or more of the macro, micro, and structural approaches. For this
study, the researchers and academics need the sociological imagination in
educational policies for understanding and analyzing educational realities,
relationships with policy actors, the institutional and organizational conditions
and contexts.