Please use your sociological insight and your synthesis of the books “Kids These Days” and “The Sixth Extinction” to analyze the articles on two significant issues: Education and COVID (links below)....

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Title: Inequality in Education as an Impact of Pandemic
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The Role of Truth in Public Discourse    3
Role of Education    3
Role Higher Education    4
Inequality, Health & Generational Conflict    5
Works Cited    7
The Role of Truth in Public Discourse
The political and civil discourse is characterized as the decay of the truth that has been set in the terms of interrelated trends about the disagreement regarding the facts and analytical interpretation of the facts and data. This also enhances the aspect of blooding of the line between opinion and fat with an increase in the resulting influence of opinion and personal experience. This is effective from the aspects that rule in terms of the politics regarding the rise of the epidemic.
The article by Groopman addresses the politics that went on behind the spread of the pandemic and documents the social and political factors that enabled them to spread. This has been completed in terms of the cognitive thought process and the bias that developed among the citizen which includes the social media and the competitive demands on the education system that deviation the times spent on media literacy and critical thinking (Groopman). This has subsequently resulted from its polarization of both political and demographic elements that had the most damaging consequences of truth decay including the erosion of civil discourse and political analysis in terms of uncertainty over national policy.
The article has effectively exploded the subsequent causes and consequences regarding the spread of the pandemic and the related aspects that came up in determining the causes and consequences of the truth. The truth regarding the anti-science and nationalism has been the most exasperating aspect of the discussion.
Role of Education
The functional theory effectively focuses on the functions solved by education that mainly contemplate the aspects of recognizing the various needs of society. It is evident that one of the most important aspects of education is socialization. It is education that is a significant element that helps the children to function within society and this provides the primary vehicle for search learning. Education has been the contemplative approach that develops an individual with respect for authority and individualism with a strong motive for competition. The situation is comprehensive to mention that we aspect of social integration and developing a common set of values is one of the significant motives of education.
Moreover, education has also been contemplated as...