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For them, Education maintains and renews the social structure, transmits and develops
culture.
Educational System is an important mechanism for the selection and allocation of individuals
in their future roles in society.
Education as the ground for providing one‟s ability and selective agency for different status
according to their abilities.
Inequality of educational opportunity is also a product of social stratification.
Inequality of educational opportunity is also a product of social stratification.
Due to socio- economic background children go to different kinds of schools. Those who go
to good schools acquire better privileges and opportunities.
Some argue that schooling divide between elite and the masses. Children going to privileged
schools learn to be confident while children deprived of that feel the opposite.
Gender and Caste discrimination also affect the chance of education.