{"id":13030,"date":"2026-09-13T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/?p=13030"},"modified":"2026-09-13T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:31:00","slug":"the-microcosm-of-coercion-deconstructing-the-school-as-a-subversive-and-maladaptive-social-system-a-critical-sociological-and-institutional-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/index.php\/volume4-issue8\/the-microcosm-of-coercion-deconstructing-the-school-as-a-subversive-and-maladaptive-social-system-a-critical-sociological-and-institutional-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Microcosm of Coercion: Deconstructing the School as a Subversive and Maladaptive Social System: A Critical Sociological and Institutional Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\"><strong>Author: Dr A Q Suhail Ahmed Choudhury<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>DOI Link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70798\/Bijmrd\/04080007\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70798\/Bijmrd\/04080007<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Traditional educational discourse frames the school as a benign micro-society\u2014an essential apparatus designed to socialize youth, foster civic virtue, and transmit critical intellectual capital. However, critical sociological theory, radical pedagogy, and institutional analysis reveal a contrasting reality: the school functions as a toxic microcosm of society\u2019s structural failings. Rather than serving as an incubator for human flourishing, the modern schooling institution functions as a site of enforced conformity, systemic alienation, stratified inequality, and psychological pacification. By examining the hidden curriculum, authoritarian power dynamics, panoptic surveillance, and peer-group pathologies, this paper argues that the school constitutes a \u2018bad society.\u2019 It systematically conditions subjects to accept arbitrary hierarchies, suppresses organic intellectual curiosity, and reproduces socio-economic divisions under the guise of meritocracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> School, Society, Micro-Society, Pedagogy, Institutional Analysis, Sociological Analysis, Social System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-1-color has-text-color\"><strong>Page No: 53-57<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-ast-global-color-6-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/53-57.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">download journal<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Dr A Q Suhail Ahmed Choudhury DOI Link: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70798\/Bijmrd\/04080007 Abstract: Traditional educational discourse frames the school as a benign micro-society\u2014an essential apparatus designed to socialize youth, foster civic virtue, and transmit critical intellectual capital. However, critical sociological theory, radical pedagogy, and institutional analysis reveal a contrasting reality: the school functions as a toxic microcosm &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/index.php\/volume4-issue8\/the-microcosm-of-coercion-deconstructing-the-school-as-a-subversive-and-maladaptive-social-system-a-critical-sociological-and-institutional-analysis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Microcosm of Coercion: Deconstructing the School as a Subversive and Maladaptive Social System: A Critical Sociological and Institutional Analysis<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/index.php\/author\/asraful-alibiswas\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/index.php\/category\/volume4-issue8\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Volume4 Issue8<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Author: Dr A Q Suhail Ahmed Choudhury DOI Link: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70798\/Bijmrd\/04080007 Abstract: Traditional educational discourse frames the school as a benign micro-society\u2014an essential apparatus designed to socialize youth, foster civic virtue, and transmit critical intellectual capital. 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