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Uneven odds : social mobility in contemporary India / Divya Vaid.
LIBRA HN690.Z9 S6587 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaid, Divya, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social mobility--India.
- Social mobility.
- Job vacancies.
- India.
- Social classes--India.
- Social classes.
- Caste--India.
- Caste.
- Job vacancies--India.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 338 pages : illustrations, charts (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This book draws on national level datasets and advanced quantitative techniques to address the question of the rate of social mobility in Indian society. It underlines the fairly stable nature of Indian society, despite liberalization, and the critical role caste, class, gender and education play in this regard.
- Contents:
- Introduction: approaching social mobility
- The Indian context: caste, gender, and the labour market
- How many classes are there? Class debates and class schemas
- How mobile is India? Social mobility patterns and trends
- Cutting through: caste and class mobility
- Mobility mechanisms: the role of education
- Conclusions: uneven odds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199480142
- 0199480141
- OCLC:
- 1037563179
- Publisher Number:
- 99980211029
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