Download or read book A Guide to the Study of Social and Economic Groups and Stratification in ICRISAT s Indian Village Level Studies written by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. Economics Department and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Village and Household Economies in India s Semi arid Tropics written by T. S. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. include Proceedings of the conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics.
Download or read book Insurance Against Poverty written by World Institute for Development Economics Research and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Much of their energy goes into coping with these shocks and into day-to-day survival. While insurance and credit markets, combined with widespread social security, provide an important cushion against poverty in rich countries, the need for immediate survival may lock the poor into persistent poverty in developing countries.The poor in developing countries do have informal mechanisms to cope with risk and misfortune. These are based on income diversification, risk avoidance, self-insurance by saving together with family, and community-based mutual assistance. Nevertheless, the scope of these mechanisms remains limited. Repeated individual-specific shocks such as illness or pests, or covariate risks associated with drought, flood, or recession, undermine the ability of individuals and their families to cope withrisk.We now know much more about vulnerability to risk and how poor people cope. Even more importantly, we have learned much about the large long-term consequences of these risks, which condemns many to persistent poverty and excludes them from economic growth. But there is much that can be done. The micro-level studies that underpin this book offer new insights on how effective public action could be more effective in protecting the vulnerable against persistent poverty. Policy should focus onproviding a comprehensive menu of ex-ante and post-crisis protection mechanisms, including new forms of insurance, savings, safety nets, and the means to strengthen the poor's asset base. Local communities have a big role to play: public funds should not be used to replace indigenous community-basedsupport networks; rather they should be used to build on the strengths of these networks to ensure broader and more effective protection.With numerous thematic chapters and case studies of both best practice and of failure, from a mix of low-income and middle-income countries across the developing world, this book evaluates alternatives in widening insurance and protection provision, and makes an important contribution to the topical field of insurance and risk.
Download or read book A Brief Introduction to ICRISAT s Village Level Studies in India written by K. G. Kshirsagar and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Poverty in India written by Saba Waseem and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropology In Use written by John Van Willigen and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1991-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting descriptions of over 400 case studies on policy research, community action and development projects, this book offers also a history of applied anthropology. The topically organized entries cover 50 years of efforts in the field.
Download or read book Application Areas of Anthropology written by Anil Mahajan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Stratification in India written by K L Sharma and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1997-09-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departs from the tendency to understand social stratification mainly from the perspective of sociology to provide a holistic understanding of social stratification and mobility in India, drawing on ideas from various branches of the social sciences. Analyzes the historical, cultural, and political bases of social stratification, with chapters on the phenomenon in the rural and urban settings and in weaker sections of society, and on gender and social stratification and social mobility. Of interest to scholars in sociology, social anthropology, and political sociology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Social Stratification written by James Littlejohn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972, this book aimed to provide the student with a basic understanding of the main theories of social stratification and to acquaint them with current methods of research, with the results from modern research (with emphasis on British research), and with current issues in this field. The first two chapters are concerned with theory and are followed by chapters on slavery and the caste system. These are intended to illustrate concepts and theory and to offer the student a comparative perspective in which to view stratification in modern society – which is dealt with in a final lengthy chapter. The book has been written primarily for first-year university students, but also with sixth-formers and students in colleges of further education in mind.
Download or read book From Hierarchy to Stratification written by D. B. Miller and published by Delhi : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Late 1960S Study Is An Attempt To Understand What Is Happening To A Segment Of Traditional Indian Society In Whose Social Divisions And Structure The Tentancies Of The Caste System Are Firmly Embedded And Confront The Concerted On Slaught Of The Egalitarian Ideals Of Independent India, Institutionalized In Panchayati Raj And The Five Year Plans. Without Dustjacket. Ex-Libris.
Download or read book Social Stratification written by Dipankar Gupta and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of sociological essays on four main themes in Indian culture: caste, caste profiles, class and conflict.
Download or read book Social Stratification and Change in India written by Yogendra Singh and published by Manohar Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a profile of Indian sociology in terms of its concepts and theories. It also exposes the dilemmas and structural contradictions in the process of social stratification and change in India. It particularly examines concepts and processes of caste, class and peasantry, elites, social mobility, structural dif-ferentiations, policy of reservation and its impact in SCs/STs and OBCs
Download or read book Dimensions of Social Change in India written by Institute for Social and Economic Change and published by Bombay : Allied Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers and proceedings.
Download or read book Caste Class and Social Mobility written by Floriane Bolazzi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Independence (1947), India has undergone profound social, political and economic transformations driven by the agrarian reforms in the 1950s, the Green Revolution in the 1970s and the neoliberal turn in the 1990s. While these changes have undeniably contributed to the economic development of the country, it is less clear to what extent better opportunities for social mobility opened up to individuals and groups of individuals historically disadvantaged by their caste affiliation. Large-scale studies of social mobility in India have been limited by the lack of intergenerational data and the impossibility to disaggregate caste categories into jatis (birth-ascribed endogamous groups). Using unique data at the individual level of the entire population of Palanpur, a village in Uttar Pradesh, surveyed seven times from 1958 to 2015, this thesis aims at verifying whether the social mobility has increased over time and whether the caste, at the jati level, continues to prevail as a factor of social stratification. We combine a longitudinal analysis of trends, patterns and determinants of social mobility over three generations of individuals with a qualitative analysis of 102 semi-structured interviews carried out during six months fieldwork. We find evidence of social mobility increasing but mainly downward and horizontal from the agrarian classes toward the class of daily manual workers. The upper classes maintain a comparative advantage in terms of social stability, but secondary education increasingly equalizes the chances of upward mobility. However, access to education remains sensitive to economic inequalities and social origins. Globally, the influence of caste on the social destination has diminished for all, regardless of class of origin and level of education. Moreover, although historically disadvantaged castes still have relatively lower chances to access the salariat class, a perception of empowerment emerges among lower castes who were previously dominated by large landholders. Ultimately, caste would partly dissociate from class, and power would shift from the ritual sphere to the economic sphere. Beyond this case study, the thesis develops an original approach of mixed methodology and a comprehensive analysis of the material and subjective dimensions of mobility and intersectionality.
Download or read book Social Stratification in Rural Society written by Arvind Kumar and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Stratification In Rural Society Contain The Following Chapters: Social Stratification In Rural Society; Functional And Conflict Theory Of Stratification; Stratification In Rigvedic Society; Studies On Social Stratification; Shaping Of The Traditional Pattern Of Stratification In India; Social Stratification In Industrial Setting In India; Social Stratification In Rural India; Value And Value Systems; Varna And Caste; Features Of The Caste System; Hierarchy, Status And Power; The Brahmanical View Of Caste; The Essence And Reality Of The Caste System; Occupational Mobility Of Castes; Transformation Of Class Structure In Contemporary Rural India; The Kinship System; The Study Of Kinship Systems And Jajmani System Etc.Substantially Based On The Findings Of Eminent Scholars In The Field, This Book Will Prove Of Utmost Use For The Scholars, Teachers, Social Scientists And Administrators Alike.
Download or read book Chronicles from the Field written by Robert M. Townsend and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons learned in the process of designing and implementing one of the longest-running panel data surveys in development economics.
