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Education is often viewed as an agency of social change. However in reality it could also reinforce inequalities and conservatism. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Education System and Social Change

Émile Durkheim defined education as the influence exercised by adult generations on those not yet ready for social life — a definition in which the institution's first duty is transmission, not transformation. The tension the question names is therefore built into the institution: the same apparatus that equips a society to change is the one…

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  • Education as an agency of change
  • How the same institution reinforces inequality
  • How it reinforces conservatism
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