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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Role of education in social development.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Education System and Social Change

Social development is the process by which a society enlarges the competence, security and participation of its members. Education contributes to it through identifiable mechanisms — and fails wherever those mechanisms are blocked. Stating the mechanisms, rather than asserting the benefit, is what makes the sociological case.

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  • Four mechanisms through which education develops a society
  • Where the mechanisms fail
  • Conclusion

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