What are the similarities between sociology and education?

Sociology is related to education because it is a factor in how a student learns and behaves in a school setting.

Sociology is a study of socialization amongst the human race. If one understand a person's social experiences, he or she may understand exactly the type of student that person may be.

Answer

You can't really compare education and sociology.

Sociology is a branch of sciene which studies the behavoir of populations at large. This would include such things as 'Group Think'.

Education is an institution in learning and teaching occurs.

We would learn about sociology in a social studies class, but that is about as far as the comparison can be made. Sociology studies very large populations of people, like all the people of an entire country or all of the people in a total population that fit certain criteria.

The study of psychology would be more useful to understand a single persons behavoir or experiences when trying to teach them something.