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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

“Education is a major source of social mobility in contemporary society.” Explain.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Education System and Social Change

In pre-industrial orders, position passed through birth, land and the guild. Industrial society replaced these transmitters with certified knowledge, so that the school became the main channel of vertical circulation. The statement is defensible, but its force rests on conditions that have to be stated.

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