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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

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

  • UPSC 2007
  • Education System and Social Change

To call education an instrument is to concede that it is wielded — by a state pursuing development, a market pursuing employable labour, or a movement pursuing emancipation. Its direction is therefore never given by the institution itself. R. M. MacIver treated social change as a response to altered conditions; education is the means by…

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  • How the instrument works
  • Education as a directed instrument in India
  • Why the instrument slips
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