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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Mass media and education.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Visions of Social Change in India

The relationship runs both ways. Mass media is an instrument of formal education, extending the classroom to those the school cannot reach; it is also a rival socialising agency with a curriculum of its own, shaping what counts as knowledge and who is authorised to transmit it.

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  • Media as an educational agency
  • Media as a parallel and competing educator
  • The divide that decides the outcome
  • Conclusion

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