How the Zambian Educational system reinforce social stratification in society
Historically, the purpose of formal schooling has centered on the transmission of knowledge from one generation to another. With the industrial revolution came the complex division of labour, resulting in new skill requirements for occupations. At the same time, education was used to transmit a national identity to pupils. Therefore, this academic writing is an attempt to explain in detail how the Zambian education system reinforces social stratification in society. In sociology of education, social stratification is a concept involving the classification of people into groups based on shared socio-economic conditions; a relational set of inequalities with economic, social, political and ideological dimensions. When differences lead to greater status, power or privilege for some groups over the other it is called Social Stratification. Modern society views education as an important societal resource and a means of achieving the goal of egalitarianism. Educatio...
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