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According to Durkheim, “The major function of education is the transmission of society’s norms and values.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Education System and Social Change

Émile Durkheim defined education in Education and Sociology (1922) as the methodical socialisation of the younger generation — the means by which society creates in the child the being it needs. Elaborated in Moral Education (first published 1925), the claim makes the school the successor to religion as the workshop of the collective conscience. It…

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