Religious Differentials in Educational Attainments
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 6
Abstract
Education since long has come to be viewed as an agent and an agency of social change and as a harbinger of positive social transformation. In view of its positive implications for the welfare and wellbeing of the masses and thereby for their social and material conditions of existence, education has come to be viewed as an important causative or an explanatory social variable in the analysis of contemporary social reality. Further, education has been viewed as of seminal significance in determining the occupational aspirations and achievements, determining the levels of awareness and empowerment, as well as conditioning the lifestyles and consumption patterns. It has a role to play in the health, hygiene and sanitation status of the communities as well as productive and reproductive behavior of the masses. In view of these implications, the quality if life of people on the one hand and the quality of manpower of a nation on the other are viewed as the functions of education. However, despite its significant socio-economic and psychological implications, causative variable is assured to vary significantly with other non-rational variables such as race, religion, ethnicity, gender and region to which individuals belong not by choice. These variables could be of still greater consequence in societies with traditional order and conservative social milieu like India. It is assumed that, being born into a religion one‟s opportunities for education have been conditioned and thereby the life chances. Hence, an attempt is made in this paper to ascertain empirically the implications of religious affiliation for educational attainments. It is further assumed that, differentials in educational attainments could be more marked at higher levels owing to universalization of primary education being in practice in India, wherein children irrespective of caste, religion, and income are entitled to free education till the age of 14. Thus, it is the higher education in which the socio-cultural traits of individuals could be of greater consequence and it may be assumed that higher the level of education stronger is the influence of religious affiliation. The findings of the present study are based on the data pertaining to the doctoral students at Bangalore University- Karnataka, India.
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Dr. C. Somashekher
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