• Dr. BINU.K

Abstract Society is the realm of reciprocal interaction of nodes and ties. Nodes are the individual actors engaged in interaction process but the bond of relationships that exists between the actors or participants can be termed as the ties. The strength of the ties and the intensity of interactions are the determinants of social structure and functions of modern society. Recent sociologists and social psychologists have examined the degree of interrelationship between the individual and society with in the background of different perspectives and ideologies. Education is a key social mechanism for strengthening and enhancing interpersonal relationships and social capital of individuals. Education is a force which helps an individual to cut across the barriers of caste, class and other types of social- and gender-based disparities and inequalities. It is an agent for inculcating social rights, knowledge and other types of artifacts, both consciously and unconsciously. Individual duties and responsibilities are developed through the inculcation of values and principles through the diffusion of knowledge and skills. Duties and responsibilities are nurtured from the social milieu of individual through education. In the present era of information capitalism, the concept of education and dissemination of knowledge has changed dramatically. Different educationalists have examined the current dynamics of educational practices and modalities within the framework of information and communication technology (ICT). Emergence of ICT in educational practices have alerted and re-structured the traditional bondages of teaching-learning process of teacher centeredness to technologically mediated system in to modern learner centered education as a result of the interplay of information communication technology. New interpersonal ties are formed as a result of the effect of information technology in the modern educational institutions which results in the transformation of traditional ties, formalities and procedures. This study is focused to assess the role of technology in modern education system and the subsequent development of social self or social capital among the student communities. This cross sectional study helps to assess the role of technology in catalyzing information for individual and social development. The study clearly reveals that, the modern technological education has been transforming the family roles of the students, the gravity of their social rights and responsibilities and resulted in the formation of new interpersonal proximal and distant ties, or the formation technocratic consciousness to solve all harsh realities of their life. Modern means of education is acting a catalyst for the formation of new technologically mediated social and individual responsibilities and relationships.

Keywords: technological socialization, technocratic consciousness, knowledge society, virtual world

"Information Technology, Education and Individual Development – A Modern Sociological Perspective ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.166-171, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812123.pdf

"Information Technology, Education and Individual Development – A Modern Sociological Perspective ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp166-171, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812123.pdf