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About: Caste is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5681 publications have been published within this topic receiving 91330 citations. The topic is also known as: caste system.


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01 Jan 1887

30 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the American class structure considered in this paper is not so rigid as the caste system discussed by Kingsley Davis in "Intermarriage in Caste Societies,"' the fact remains that strata exist and the family is placed in the class structure as a unit, and that if a man and woman of different social levels marry, there must generally be a shift of status for one or both of them.
Abstract: IN any stratified social order, marriage usually implies equality of status. Although the American class structure considered in this paper is not so rigid as the caste system discussed by Kingsley Davis in "Intermarriage in Caste Societies,"' the fact remains that strata exist and the family is placed in the class structure as a unit. This means that if a man and woman of different social levels marry, there must generally be a shift of status for one or both of them. The question arises: Does this necessary shift of status affect the subsequent adjustment of the spouses? Ruesch, Jacobson, and Loeb point out the feelings of stress, frustration, and confusion which often accompany the acculturation of immigrants.2 The greater the degree of culture difference, the greater the maladjustment of the individual is likely to be. The differences in the characteristics of the social classes in our society indicate that these classes are different cultural groups. A person moving from one class to another must go through a process of acculturation similar to, though perhaps not so extreme as, that of an immigrant. In some cases a shift of status of one or both spouses has taken place before marriage. A certain amount of stress and insecurity in social situations may thus be brought into the marriage relationship by one or both partners. This possibility suggests a second major problem: Do the premarital mobility patterns of the spouses affect the subsequent marital adjustment? A fairly large group of cases which had some rating of marital adjustment and some

30 citations

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01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: The authors examines the nature of caste and its relation to Hinduism and questions in what sense it is possible to speak of Christianity as an egalitarian faith and traces the development of ideas on caste among Christian missionaries, examining the relationship between these views and the Revolt of 1857.
Abstract: This work, first published in 1980, breaks new ground as concerns caste in India. It first examines the nature of caste and its relation to Hinduism and questions in what sense it is possible to speak of Christianity as an egalitarian faith. It then considers some Hindu egalitarian movements and traces the development of ideas on caste among Christian missionaries, examining the relationship between these views and the Revolt of 1857. Close attention is given to changing attitudes on caste, both by missionaries and by Indian Christians, while the influence of nationalism on Christian attitudes to caste and other social questions is further examined. Finally, there is a review of the contemporary state of the question and of the specifically Christian contribution to modern views on caste.

30 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examined how some Indians read integrative messages into the practical procedures through which blood is donated and distributed and found that a striking manifestation of the Nehruvian ideology of national integration possesses a compelling presence in the Indian blood donation milieu.
Abstract: This article explores nationalist interpretations of blood donation activity, examining how some Indians read integrative messages into the practical procedures through which blood is donated and distributed. The first post-Independence Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, proclaimed the need for `national integration' as a bulwark against a myriad of linguistic, caste and ethnic agitations that threatened to disrupt the unity of the newly formed nation-state. This article shows that a striking manifestation of the Nehruvian ideology of national integration possesses a compelling presence in the Indian blood donation milieu. Scholars of India have long been preoccupied with documenting attempts by the Hindu right to redefine the nation in exclusively Hindu, anti-Nehruvian terms. Questioning the prevailing assumption that the only thing that counts politically in India today is the debunking or overriding of Nehruvian ideals of the secular inclusive nation, this article rehabilitates Nehruvianism as ...

30 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023585
20221,232
2021241
2020254
2019243
2018247