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Book Social Stratification and Mobility in Urban India

Download or read book Social Stratification and Mobility in Urban India written by W. S. K. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Stratification and Mobility

Download or read book Social Stratification and Mobility written by K. L. Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social stratification as a theme of study and research in sociology occupies a place of immense significance. Structural, ideological and emotional issues, involved in the study of social stratification, have created controversies and diametrically contrary viewpoints. Professor Sharma examines critically theoretical and methodological issues in the essays included in this volume. A preference for the structural-historical approach with interdisciplinary focus is evident in it. Further, the book provides a comprehensive and critical review of the studies on social stratification particularly from a sociology of knowledge perspective. The debate regarding caste and class is presented with a refreshing analysis in terms of their nexus and continuity and change. Gaps between theory and method in respect of the studies on social stratification in India have also been pointed out. A note of Louis Dumontâ??s ""Homo Hierarchicus"" provides a brief, though critical, account of the structuralist perspective on caste stratification. Profiles of social stratification in specific settings such as urban-industrial, rural-agrarian and tribal provide a semblance of theoretical issues and empirical realities. Essays on social stratification and mobility among the scheduled castes, in particular, highlight the caste-class nexus. How ethnicity and class influence social relations among the tribal people is discussed in detail. Although, social mobility is discussed as a concurrent theme in all the essays, levels of social mobility, downward social mobility and social mobility among the scheduled castes have been analyzed specifically in the book.The book encompasses all that which one would normally like to know about social stratification in India. "

Book Living Class in Urban India

Download or read book Living Class in Urban India written by Sara Dickey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the “second-tier” city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents’ palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes. Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.

Book Uneven Odds

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  • Author : Divya Vaid
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-04-17
  • ISBN : 0199093644
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Uneven Odds written by Divya Vaid and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on patterns of intergenerational stability, this book traces the unequal structures of opportunity in India. The author addresses questions and approaches towards social mobility (or the lack thereof) through interactions between social class, caste, and gender while adopting a rural–urban perspective, capturing changes over time, and the implications of social mobility on a national scale. This book plugs in crucial gaps in the research on social mobility, which has been marked by the lack of precision regarding the extent of mobility in contemporary India. Using a broad lens of both caste and class, this up-to-date statistical analysis, which uses national-level datasets and advanced quantitative methods, enriches the sociological as well as the anthropological literature, while also locating India within the larger context of social mobility research in the industrialized and industrializing world.

Book Social Stratification and Mobility

Download or read book Social Stratification and Mobility written by Kanhaiya Lal Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to India.

Book Social Class in Urban India

Download or read book Social Class in Urban India written by Aloo E Driver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Stratification and Change in India

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

Book Social Class in Urban Indian

Download or read book Social Class in Urban Indian written by Edwin D. Driver and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Themes in Social Stratification and Mobility

Download or read book Themes in Social Stratification and Mobility written by Ishwar Modi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volume examines the structure, culture, process, and dialectics in post-independent India. From a broad theoretical and empirical perspective, the contributions analyze issues related to India's social stratification, mobility, village community, urban life, tribal and peasant movements, gender relations, etc. The contours and dynamics of Indian society in relation to caste, class, and power hierarchies are discussed to ascertain the relative role played by the structural and cultural factors. Eminent sociology scholars, colleagues, and students of Professor K.L. Sharma have contributed to this festschrift in his honor.

Book social mobility among the professions

Download or read book social mobility among the professions written by S. M. Dubey and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Stratification and Mobility in a Developing Indian City

Download or read book Social Stratification and Mobility in a Developing Indian City written by D. J. Shashikala and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Stratification in India

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

Book Social Stratification

Download or read book Social Stratification written by Dipankar Gupta and published by Oxford in India Readings in So. 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.

Book Right to Life

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  • Author : D. K. Bajwa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Right to Life written by D. K. Bajwa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts To Explain, Analyse And Evaluate The Right To Life Under The Indian Political System. Traces The Origin Of This Right To Its Incorporation In The Constitutions-Evaluates The Judgements Of The Indian Country On The Theme-Company The Position In India, Usa And Uk In This Respect And The Role Of Political Parties. Highlights The Extent Of Its Violations And Offers Suggestion For Its Protections. Jacket Slightly Rubbed.

Book Social Inequality in India

Download or read book Social Inequality in India written by Kanhaiya Lal Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Book Stepping into the Elite

Download or read book Stepping into the Elite written by Jules Naudet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of shifting from one social class to another—from a dominated group to a dominant group—raises the question of how the upwardly mobile person relates to his/her group of origin. Stepping into the Elite traces the particular ways in which upwardly mobile people in India, France, and the United States—countries embodying three distinct stratification systems—make sense of this change. Given that people draw upon specific cultural tools or repertoires to analyse their world and situate themselves in it, Naudet identifies the extent to which narratives of ‘success’ vary from one country to another. For instance, he explains that while stories in a caste-ridden society such as India hinge on the preservation of bonds with the original class, in France, they are centered on the idea that an upwardly mobile person is alienated from all social groups. In the United States, on the other hand, the rhetoric of success is tinged by the ardent belief in the American society being classless. A sociological journey in three different cultural contexts, this book deftly ties the exploration of questions regarding transformation of social identity and views on being successful.

Book Social Mobility in the Caste System in India

Download or read book Social Mobility in the Caste System in India written by James Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: