The caste‚ the class and the colour-bar are among the systems of social stratification. The main aim of this essay is to compare and contrast these systems as well as indicating their advantages and disadvantages to development. The essay begins with defining the key terms which include comparing‚ contrasting and development. It further goes on to define as well as explain social stratification itself‚ the caste‚ the class and the colour-bar systems respectively. The essay further talks about the
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everyone and be able to achieve a higher a caste in the next life. The fact that most people were illiterate is due to the fact they belonged to a low caste system. Indian society was divided into castes or social classes depending on Varnas or skin color. How each person fulfilled dharma‚ or duty and what that dharma was depended on which caste you belonged to. Indian people could marry only people that belonged to the same caste‚ eat only certain things you caste allowed‚ and the people you could relate
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Indians boast about unity in diversity as we have many varieties of religions‚ castes and communities but do we really appreciate and embrace this difference? The answer is a big no. We‚ in our school textbooks‚ read about this and discuss this very briefly but what we fail to do is to analyse the present situation. Today I saw a documentary on honor killings. Honor killings are done under the name of protecting the caste name. The very popular and recent case is the case of Ilavarasan and Divya.
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Although there should be a separation between religion and state‚ some societies are affected by the beliefs of it’s people. In Hinduism and Confucianism it’s followers are influenced by the belief of civil service exams‚ the five relationships‚ the caste system‚ and reincarnation; these principles have affected their governments and social structures. Confucianism influence Chinese society by creating social customs and evaluating it’s government officials. The formation of Confucianism began around
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understood very important and the social system based on caste contributed more to this idea. It can be observed that ‘untouchability’ was considered thus a source of exclusivism‚ a social instrument of which became religious only by being drawn into the pollution-purity complex Therefore‚ it was considered that people belonging to the higher social classes based on caste hierarchy were more pure and less polluted and the people belonging to the lower caste were perceived as less pure and more polluted The
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There are at least two ways by which birth is related to memory (or ‘Collective Memory’ to be more precise); the first is the Jungian ‘Collective Unconscious’ transmitted hereditarily and has been alternatively called ‘genetic memory’ (Treffert) while the second are Dawkins’ memes transmitted culturally. Much scholarship has been done on the first and for our present purposes it should suffice to say that “the contents of the collective unconscious have never been in consciousness‚ and therefore
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archive file of SOC 315 Week 4 Discussion Questions includes: DQ 1 DQ 2 Sociology - General Sociology Social Stratification Systems: Caste vs. Class . India’s caste system‚ in which there are four major castes‚ or varnas ‚ is a social construct that is ascribed and immutable: people are born into this system and cannot move between castes. In American society‚ class systems‚ of which there are five‚ are social rankings based largely on economic position. In America‚ unlike India‚ one
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Philosophical Contributions of Gandhi’s Ideas Introduction A lack of an interdisciplinary approach to peace and non-violence that fails to include philosophy and education exists in part because the issue of non-violence considered as a philosophical and educational concept is under-explored. Ideas of non-violence often emerge from action‚ and therefore it is often thought that non-violence demands a need for action- a demand that many believe is not met by philosophy. These explanations are
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In today’s urban society‚ values such as an arranged marriage and caste levels do not seem like they could be relevant. However‚ in many countries around the world‚ these values are still present. In India‚ every person is born into a different class rank and once they are in their class it is very hard to change it. In Aravind Adiga’s novel‚ The White Tiger‚ he describes the story of Balram’s life and how he overcame the caste system in India; in doing so‚ a Marxist perspective could be used to
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disabilities for a very long time. They are treated as lesser human beings. Dalit’s movement for empowerment was initiated by non-Brahmins of South India. It had economic and social thrusts. It demanded education and land for backwards and freedom from caste rigidities. Some economically strong but educationally backward non-Brahmins groups resisted the hold of Brahmins on land‚ wealth‚ jobs in government and education. Access of modern education to all and spree of Reform Movements of early 19th century
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