Question : “Education helps in perpetuating social and economic inequalities.” Critically examine the statement.
(2015)
Answer : Education plays an important role in maintaining the stratification system and justifying the unequal distribution of wealth. It is believed that society is based on an unequal distribution of advantages and is characterized by a conflict of interests between the advantaged and the disadvantaged children from lower class and castes (SCs, STs and OBCs) who are much less likely to attend the private schools that give better chances for a good career.
Yet education has also ....
Question : Examine the dialectical relation between tradition and modernity in the study of social change.
(2015)
Answer : “Tradition” and “modernity” are widely used as polar opposites in a linear theory of social change. Tradition refers to the customs, beliefs and cultural practices that are passed down from one generation to the next generation. It has its origin in the past. Modernity refers to the contemporary behavior or way of doing things. It is fresh, new and modern.
Ananda Coomaraswamy held that tradition was the epoch anchored in values of collective life and qualitative ....
