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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Education and Social Development.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Education System and Social Change

Social development means the widening of well-being and agency, not merely rising output. Education sits at the centre of that conception because it is at once an end of development and one of its most efficient means. Amartya Sen (Development as Freedom, 1999) makes the point precisely: being educated is a valued functioning in itself,…

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  • Education as capability, not commodity
  • The instrumental chain
  • The Kerala demonstration
  • Why education alone is not development
  • Conclusion

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