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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Education and culture.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Education System and Social Change

Culture is a society's learned and shared design for living; education is the institution through which it is learned. The relation runs in both directions and then doubles back: education transmits culture, culture decides what education is, and education in time remakes the culture that produced it.

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  • Education transmits culture
  • Culture shapes education
  • Education reshapes culture
  • Whose culture? The live tension
  • Conclusion

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