社会教育是教育学学科视野中的重要范畴与教育形态,具有不同于学校教育和家庭教育的特点和作用。社会教育也是思想政治教育的基本形态,其理论和实践蕴含着思想政治教育的丰富资源,契合了思想政治教育社会化的时代课题。现代思想政治教育应构建和完善社会教育机制,积极彰显各种社会教育活动的思想政治教育功能。 Social education is an important category and form of education in the field of pedagogy, which has its own characteristics and functions that are different from those of school education and family education. Social education is also the basic form of ideological and political education. Its theory and practice contain abundant resources of ideological and political education, which are in line with the social issues of ideological and political education. Modern ideological and political education should establish and improve social education mechanisms and actively demonstrate the ideological and political education functions of various social education activities.