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Write short note: Education as an agent of social change.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Émile Durkheim defined education as the socialisation of the younger generation — an institution that reproduces the collective conscience. Yet the same institution also dissolves the order it transmits: by making knowledge public, achievement measurable and status winnable, it converts ascriptive societies into competitive ones. Education's power as an agent of change lies in that…

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  • How education induces change
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  • Why education is a limited agent
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