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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

“Education helps in perpetuating social and economic inequalities.” Critically examine the statement.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Education System and Social Change

The statement is the conflict tradition's core claim about schooling: that the institution most trusted to dissolve inequality is in fact its most sophisticated carrier, because it launders privilege as merit. The claim is powerful and largely supported, but it is not the whole account, and a critical examination must show where it breaks.

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  • The claim at its strongest
  • Where the claim weakens
  • Verdict

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