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Social Stratification: Class and Caste
Sociology · Chapter 9 · 6. Social Stratification
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- Social stratification: definition; inequality and difference; features
- Class system: nature, development and types (lower, middle, upper)
- Caste: definition, varna concept, divine origin (traditional) theory and characteristics
- Merits and demerits of caste; comparison of caste and class
- Social mobility: Brahminisation, Sanskritisation and Westernisation