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Attempts to influence social structure through education
Educational policy in the United States has as an explicit goal the maximization of economic and cultural opportunity.
In so far as this goal is achieved, the society becomes more fluid, artificial barriers to social mobility are reduced, and people at the lower end of the social hierarchy share more fully in the material and cultural goods of society.
On the other hand, there is a counterbalancing purpose in education which is to pass on the advantages of the parents to their children.
This leads to efforts at exclusiveness through private schools and to the maintenance of social stratification in the schools.
Both of these purposes exist side by side without much overt conflict under present conditions.
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