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Schooling does not ensure upward mobility of all members of the society. Discuss with reference to class societies.

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  • Education System and Social Change

A class society justifies itself by the claim that position is won rather than inherited, and the school is the institution entrusted with making that claim true. Pitirim Sorokin (Social Mobility, 1927) called schools the principal "sieve" through which modern societies test and place individuals. Yet class societies remain open in form and remarkably closed…

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  • The promise schooling is asked to keep
  • Why the promise cannot be kept for all
  • What class societies actually show
  • Conclusion

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