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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 1986
TL;DR: The Break-up of the Sex Role Caste System Why Women Emerge? The Social Factors: Births, Schools, Divorces, Ideas "Women's Place" in the Labour Market Occupational Segregation by Sex: The Root of Women's Disadvantage Setting the Pay for the Jobs Women Hold Government Action against Discrimination Affirmative Action and Pay Equity The Occupation of Housewife Lone Parents and their Poverty Keeping House: The Economics and Politics of Family Care 'Industrializing' Housework and Child Care A Policy Agenda for the Sex role Revolution as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Break-up of the Sex Role Caste System Why Did Women Emerge? The Social Factors: Births, Schools, Divorces, Ideas 'Women's Place' in the Labour Market Occupational Segregation by Sex: The Root of Women's Disadvantage Setting the Pay for the Jobs Women Hold Government Action against Discrimination Affirmative Action and Pay Equity The Occupation of Housewife Lone Parents and their Poverty Keeping House: The Economics and Politics of Family Care 'Industrializing' Housework and Child Care A Policy Agenda for the Sex Role Revolution

564 citations

Book
01 Jan 1941
TL;DR: The "Deep South Project" as mentioned in this paper is a landmark study in Southern social stratification, focusing on the economic, racial, and cultural character of the Jim Crow South through a study of a representative rural Mississippi community.
Abstract: This is a landmark study in Southern social stratification. First published in 1941, "Deep South" is the cooperative effort of a team of social anthropologists to document the economic, racial, and cultural character of the Jim Crow South through a study of a representative rural Mississippi community. Researchers Allison Davis, Burleigh B. Gardner, and Mary R. Gardner lived among the people of Natchez, Mississippi, as they investigated how class and caste informed daily life in a typical southern community. This Southern Classics edition of their study offers contemporary students of history a provocative collection of primary material gathered by conscientious and well-trained participant-observers, who found then - as now - intertwined social and economic inequalities at the root of racial tensions. Expanding on earlier studies of community stratification by social class, researchers in the "Deep South Project" introduced the additional concept of caste, which parsed a community through rigid social ranks assigned at birth and unalterable through life - a concept readily identifiable in the racial divisions of the Jim Crow South. As African American researchers, Davis and his wife, Elizabeth, along with his assistant St. Clair Drake, were able to gain unrivaled access to the black community in rural Mississippi, unavailable to their white counterparts. Through their interviews and experiences, the authors vividly capture the nuances in caste-enforcing systems of tenant-landlord relations, local government, and law enforcement. But the chief achievement of "Deep South" is its rich analysis of how the southern economic system, and sharecropping in particular, functioned to maintain rigid caste divisions along racial lines. In the new introduction to this edition, Jennifer Jensen Wallach situates this germinal study within the field of social anthropology and against the backdrop of similar community studies of the era. She also details the subsequent careers of this distinguished team of researchers.

534 citations

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TL;DR: This paper explored the role of the caste system in shaping career choices by gender in Bombay using new survey data on school enrollment and income over the past 20 years and found that male working-class-lower-caste networks continue to channel boys into local language schools that lead to the traditional occupation, despite the fact that returns to nontraditional white-collar occupations rose substantially in the 1990s, suggesting the possibility of a dynamic inefficiency.
Abstract: This paper addresses the question of how traditional institutions interact with the forces of globalization to shape the economic mobility and welfare of particular groups of individuals in the new economy. We explore the role of one such traditional institution-the caste system-in shaping career choices by gender in Bombay using new survey data on school enrollment and income over the past 20 years. We find that male working-class-lower-caste-networks continue to channel boys into local language schools that lead to the traditional occupation, despite the fact that returns to nontraditional white-collar occupations rose substantially in the 1990s, suggesting the possibility of a dynamic inefficiency. In contrast, lower-caste girls, who historically had low labor market participation rates and so did not benefit from the network, are taking full advantage of the opportunities that became available in the new economy by switching rapidly to English schools.

530 citations

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TL;DR: A developmental view of the evolution of societies is presented and two complementary questions are raised regarding the relationship between social structure and the factors that determine physical or physiological differences among females are raised.
Abstract: Ants, bees, and wasps form societies made up almost entirely of females. The societies are structured by differences among female members; these may be subtle, involving only physiology, or profound, involving gross size differences and hundreds of morphological characters. Since adult morphology is the product of development, the developmental systems that generate different female forms must be fundamental to social structure. Increased complexity of social organization requires changes in the underlying developmental programs that produce the members of a society. In this paper, I present a developmental view of the evolution of societies. These insights serve as a bridge between theories focused on the initial stages of the evolution of sociality in Hymenoptera (Hamilton 1964; Lin and Michener 1972; West-Eberhard 1975) and theories focused on the evolution of insect societies as superorganisms (Oster and Wilson 1978). In simple social systems, the struggle for control of the reproductive physiology of nest mates is resolved entirely in the adult stage; all females are potential queens. The evolution of higher sociality involves an enhancement of the differences between nonreproductive workers and reproductive queens. In what are termed primitively eusocial species, queens and workers cannot be distinguished on the basis of external structure. Size differences, however, often do exist. By contrast, queens and workers differ morphologically in the highly eusocial species (Michener 1974). (A eusocial society must, by definition, have both reproductive division of labor [reproductive castes] and overlap between generations, so that offspring assist parents in brood care [Wilson 1971].) The evolutionary divergence of queen and worker morphology raises two complementary questions regarding the relationship between social structure and the factors that determine physical or physiological differences among females. How far can the physiological and morphological gap between workers and queens be widened in simple systems

528 citations

Book
01 Jan 1937
TL;DR: Caste and Class in a Southern Town as discussed by the authors is a classic in American studies and has become a benchmark in social science methodology and a classic example of American studies in the South.
Abstract: An extraordinary powerful exposition of social patterns in a small town, "Caste and Class in a Southern Town "has become a benchmark in social science methodology and a classic in American studies. Now fifty years after its original publication, John Dollard's most famous work offers timeless insights and remains essential to those interested in race-related social issues. In 1937, W. E. B. Du Bois observed, "Dr. Dollard's study is one of the most interesting and penetrating that has been made concerning the South and is marked by courage and real insight. . . . Dr. Dollard's book marks a distinct advance in the study of the Southern scene."

489 citations


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