EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

EDUCATION UGC NET

EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The most potent instrument of social development is
A
Law
B
Culture
C
Religion
D
Education
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” said Nelson Mandela. Education is the median through which we can change the world. It helps us to turn weakness into strength, failure into success.

Detailed explanation-2: -Education is considered as one of the most powerful instruments of social change and control.

Detailed explanation-3: -Education is considered as a mechanism of social control. Durkheim believes that education carries the commands of the society and enforces these commands on both teachers and the students in order to offer adequate enterprise and knowledge into the minds of the students to fit into the demands of the society.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian Constitution as an instrument for social change The Constitution consists of a set of fundamental rights enshrined in Part III of the Constitution which provides the citizens with certain rights that are essential to be regulated in order to bring in a sociological change in the entire nation.

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