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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Education as a medium of cultural reproduction.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Education System and Social Change

Cultural reproduction is Pierre Bourdieu's claim, developed with Jean-Claude Passeron in Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (1970), that the class structure survives across generations because the culture which ranks it is handed on through schooling. The school does not transmit privilege directly — that would be visible — it transmits privilege as competence, which…

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