Aayushi BansalAIR 7 · CSE 2024 · 151 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Social mobility is the transition of an individual, object, value from one social stratum to other (Sorokin). Education plays a major role in ensuring mobility. Kamat envisages four relations.
Body · points
Education & social mobility
- Education promotes social mobility:
i) Access to subaltern sections via literacy programmes, affirmative actions have helped to raise class & status.
ii) Higher inter-generational mobility as children are more educated than parents.
- Education doesn't promote social mobility:
i) Kalpana Pandey argues stereotype in curriculum (eg mother shown cooking) restrict mobility of women.
ii) Commercialisation of education leads to class based education, where poor receive low quality education.
iii) Deshpande argues that upper castes are able to utilise social capital for getting employment. This renders role of education defunct.
Close · a way forward
Govt has initiated New Education Policy, 2020 based on vocationalisation, correcting stereotypes, learning in mother tongue & improving accessibility for subaltern to realise education for true social mobility.