Caste, Class and DemocracyRoutledge, 2017 M07 12 - 176 pages This volume is an introduction to the role of caste and class in Indian society, meant to emphasize certain important aspects of Indian society such as continuity and change in caste, economic classes, status of women, status of Harijans, village poli-tics, overseas Indians, and casteism and tribalism. Its theoretical interest is to explain the dynamics of social inequalities in Indian society. All but one of the essays are based on research conducted in India. The other is based on research on Indian plantation workers in Sri Lanka, and included here to demonstrate that the concepts of caste and class are relevant to understanding In-dians who have emigrated to overseas countries. |
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Caste, Class, and Democracy: Changes in a Stratification System Vijai P. Singh No preview available - 1976 |
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agricultural American Folklore Society areas ascription Asia Publishing House basis Bhagu Brahmins caste status caste system community influentials correlations differentiated economic and political economic status edited educational and occupational emerging stratification system factors fathers of respondents Gerhard E greater groups hierarchy high-caste higher castes Ibid important increased Indian Village indicated inequality influence intercaste INTERCORRELATIONS AMONG STRATIFICATION Jaiti and Ratu Kshatriya labor land landholding leaders leadership positions Lenski level of education Lipset low-caste lower castes lower-caste persons M. N. Srinivas Marriott Max Weber middle-range castes nonagricultural occupations occupational mobility occupational status occupational structure opportunities ownership percent political power property status Reinhard Bendix RESPONDENTS 35–60 ritual rank ritual status rural Sanskritization social class Social Mobility Social Stratification Social Structure societies Sociology sons of respondents status inconsistency stratification system stratification variables Table tenants Theory of Stratification three villages traditional occupations urban and industrial Uttar Pradesh various village panchayats Weber York zamindars