One thing should be apparent from t

One thing should be apparent from this article, that a great deal of what is frequently stated to be comparative education is in fact to be more adequately described as the comparative sociology ofeducation. As the field develops increasing methodological clarity, thisrealization becomes clearer, and it is apparent that the dichotomy between the two fields of study tends to be primarily historical and practical in origin.4 In effect, comparative education traces its descent from a line of remarkably insightful nineteenth-century observers while educational sociology has derived its: rationale, if not its practical workings, from the efforts of Weber and Durkheim.