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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

‘Education is induction into the learner’s culture.’ Examine the statement in society today.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Education System and Social Change

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The statement restates the anthropological view of education as enculturation — the deliberate induction of the young into the way of life they are born into. Tested against schooling today, it survives as a statement of what education claims to do rather than of what it does: the culture on offer is rarely the learner's…

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