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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Education and inequality.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Education System and Social Change

Discussion of education and inequality usually stops at the school gate, asking who gets in. The harder sociological question begins afterwards: whether the same certificate, held by differently placed people, buys the same thing. Education can widen at the entrance and remain deeply unequal at the exit.

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  • Education as social closure
  • Who is left outside
  • Unequal returns to equal credentials
  • Conclusion

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