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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Education and modernisation.

  • UPSC 1989, 1984
  • Education System and Social Change

Modernisation theory made education its central instrument: the school was to manufacture the rational, mobile, achievement-oriented individual that a differentiated society requires. India's experience largely confirms the structural half of the claim and unsettles the cultural half — modern institutions have spread far faster than modern values have.

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  • Why education is central to modernisation
  • The colonial genealogy in India
  • Structural modernisation without cultural modernisation
  • Conclusion

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