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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Education and social inequalities.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Education System and Social Change

Education is at once the remedy societies most widely trust against inequality and one of its most efficient carriers. The sociological task is to separate two questions that ordinary debate runs together: inequality of education, meaning who gets how much of what quality, and inequality through education, meaning what the system does to the distribution…

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  • Three faces of educational inequality
  • Why expansion alone does not close the gap
  • The Indian axes
  • Policy, and why it did not deliver
  • Conclusion

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