Uneven Odds

Social Mobility in Contemporary India

Bibliographic Data

ID19986113
AuthorsDivya Vaid (0000-0001-8846-0375, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages356
Publication date2018-06-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueUneven Odds (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780199480142.001.0001
OpenAlexW4249050850
Open LibraryOL30587291M
ISBN9780199480142
LanguageEN
Citations received18

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

Cartography · Caste · Class (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Economic geography · Geography · Odds · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Scale (ratio) · Social class · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · India · Job vacancies · Social classes · Social conditions · Social life and customs

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