Uneven Odds: Social Mobility in Contemporary India
Divya Vaid
Abstract
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 bot ... More
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.
Keywords:
Social Mobility,
inequality,
education,
class,
caste,
gender,
marriage,
labour market,
class schema,
modernisation,
quantitative methods
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199480142 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2019 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199480142.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Divya Vaid, author
Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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