Seeking the Indian Social Space

A Multidimensional Portrait of the Stratifications of Indian Society

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ID2634836
AutoresMathieu Ferry (0000-0001-9588-6032, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, autor de correspondencia), Jules Naudet (United States Congress), Olivier Roueff (0000-0001-6445-0965, Saint-Gobain (France))
Año2018
Fecha de publicación2018-02-20
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1960-6060 • E-ISSN: 1960-6060
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/samaj.4462
OpenAlexW2795065382
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas24

This article takes as its specific starting point the idea that the Indian society constitutes a relational space, marked by the interdependency of various sub-spaces. It more precisely aims at producing a synthetic representation of the Indian social space. In order to do so, we draw upon the 2011-2012 data from the “Household Consumer Expenditure” survey of the National Sample Survey Office. The analysis leads us to produce a multidimensional typology of consumption and position profiles around which the households who make up the Indian social space are aggregated. Finally, we propose a summary figure of the principles that organize the Indian social space and the nine categories that comprise it. In the conclusion of the article, we discuss how this multidimensional approach to Indian society encourages to question prenotions like those of “middle class”, “two-tier India”, “urban-rural cleavage”, or ideas drawn from politico-bureaucratic language like “poverty threshold”

Economic growth · Economics · Interdependence · Political science · Poverty · Social class · Social science · Social space · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Mathematics · Social and Economic Development in India · Taxation and Compliance Studies