Society in India/
David G. Mandelbaum
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2016.
- xiv, 429 p. ; 24 cm.
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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Social conditions Social mobility Families Caste Manners and customs