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Society in India/ David G. Mandelbaum

By: Mandelbaum, David G Publication details: New Delhi: SAGE, 2016Description: xiv, 429 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789386042286Subject(s): Social conditions | Social mobility | Families | Caste | Manners and customsDDC classification: 306.0954

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Volume One: Continuity and Change INTRODUCTION Task, Concepts, and Scope The Basic Groups and Groupings FAMILY AND KINSHIP RELATIONS Family Family Roles: Boy and Man Family Roles: Girl and Woman Family Cycle: Formation and Maintenance Family Cycle: Growth and Completion The Wider Ties of Kinship RELATIONS AMONG PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT JATIS The Interdependence of Families and Jatis Criteria for the Ranking of Jatis The Social Relevance of Ritual Pollution and Purity Secular Criteria and the Attribution of Jati Rank Cultural Variations and the Jati Order RELATIONS WITHIN THE JATI Alliances and Sections within the Jati Opposition and Cohesion within the Jati-group Maintaining the Jati: Leaders and Panchayats The Uses of Panchayats Jati Enterprises and Functions Volume Two: Change and Continuity VILLAGE, REGION, CIVILIZATION Village: Separate Hearths and Common Home The Village: Internal Regulation The Wider Ties of Village: Centers and Regions The Villager and Some Perennial Problems of Civilization RECURRENT CHANGE THROUGH SOCIAL MOBILITY Jati Mobility Cultural Adaptations and Models for Mobility Mobility Tactics: Overcoming External Opposition Maintaining Internal Cohesion: Fission and Fusion Modern Means for Jati Improvement: Associations and Federations RECURRENT CHANGE THROUGH RELIGIOUS AND TRIBAL MOVEMENTS Social Regrouping through Indigenous Religions Social Aspects of Introduced Religions: Muslims Social Aspects of Introduced Religions: Jews, Parsis, Christians The Accretion of Tribal Peoples Direction of Tribal Change CONTINUITIES AND TRENDS Psychological Forces, Social Processes, and Systemic Shift Trends APPENDIX: THE CONCEPTS OF SYSTEM AND OF STRATIFICATION Uses of the concepts What kind of system is a "caste system"?

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Volume One: Continuity and Change

INTRODUCTION
Task, Concepts, and Scope
The Basic Groups and Groupings

FAMILY AND KINSHIP RELATIONS
Family
Family Roles: Boy and Man
Family Roles: Girl and Woman
Family Cycle: Formation and Maintenance
Family Cycle: Growth and Completion
The Wider Ties of Kinship

RELATIONS AMONG PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT JATIS
The Interdependence of Families and Jatis
Criteria for the Ranking of Jatis
The Social Relevance of Ritual Pollution and Purity
Secular Criteria and the Attribution of Jati Rank
Cultural Variations and the Jati Order

RELATIONS WITHIN THE JATI
Alliances and Sections within the Jati
Opposition and Cohesion within the Jati-group
Maintaining the Jati: Leaders and Panchayats
The Uses of Panchayats
Jati Enterprises and Functions

Volume Two: Change and Continuity

VILLAGE, REGION, CIVILIZATION

Village: Separate Hearths and Common Home
The Village: Internal Regulation
The Wider Ties of Village: Centers and Regions
The Villager and Some Perennial Problems of Civilization

RECURRENT CHANGE THROUGH SOCIAL MOBILITY
Jati Mobility
Cultural Adaptations and Models for Mobility
Mobility Tactics: Overcoming External Opposition
Maintaining Internal Cohesion: Fission and Fusion
Modern Means for Jati Improvement: Associations and Federations

RECURRENT CHANGE THROUGH RELIGIOUS AND TRIBAL MOVEMENTS
Social Regrouping through Indigenous Religions
Social Aspects of Introduced Religions: Muslims
Social Aspects of Introduced Religions: Jews, Parsis, Christians
The Accretion of Tribal Peoples
Direction of Tribal Change

CONTINUITIES AND TRENDS
Psychological Forces, Social Processes, and Systemic Shift
Trends

APPENDIX: THE CONCEPTS OF SYSTEM AND OF STRATIFICATION
Uses of the concepts
What kind of system is a "caste system"?

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