Bringing together findings from a variety of social sciences disciplines and drawing upon a wide range of contemporary studies and analyses, Social Stratification provides a detailed overview of structural and cultural changes in contemporary Indian society. Author K. L. Sharma develops a holistic understanding that sees categories such as caste and class, caste and power, power and class, structure and culture, and structure and processes as interacting components, both conceptually and empirically. Of special interest, this book analyzes social stratification among weaker components of society and women within a comparative framework. Social Stratification builds toward the postulation of a desirable/desired society, keeping in view the historical and contemporary nature of social stratification and mobility. Students, academics, and researchers in the fields of sociology, social stratification, social change, cultural studies, and South Asian studies will want to read Social Stratification for its innovative approach to analyzing social stratification in India.

Social Stratification in India: Issues and Themes

Sharma, K. L.

History

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Sage Pubns

<p>Surface and Ground Water pollution has been growing increasingly in several parts of India and other countries, particularly in areas of intensive industrialization. Many industries discharge their untreated or partially treated waste in the immediate neighbourhood or in some nearby low-lying areas most oftenly in channels which join various surface water bodies such as large ponds, streams, rivers etc. The pollutant of these waste materials seep down to the ground water systems along with the entire course of fluid flow and pollute ground water. Crops grown with polluted water absorb considerable amount of toxic metals and inturn whole food chain gets polluted. Peri-urban consumers of the contaminated agricultural produce suffer on account of health. The present project was undertaken to quantify the level of heavy metals accumulation in leafy vegetables and fodder grass. The experiences, results and methodology of the study presented in this book will be highly useful to the future researchers, students, environmentalists, NGOs, farmers and peri-urban consumers of agricultural produce not only in India but also in other countries of the world having identical situation.</p>

Sewage Water Irrigation and Heavy Metals: Distribution and Accumulation in Soil, Ground Water and Agricultural Produce

Teen & Young Adult

Usha Rani, K.

Ramachandran, Kaushalya

Hobbies & Games

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

Society and Polity in Modern Sri Lanka

Social Sciences

South Asia Books

Social Stratification and Mobility

"Social stratification as a theme of study and research in sociology occupies a place of immense significance. Structural, ideological and emotional issues, involved in the study of social stratification, have created controversies and diametrically contrary viewpoints. Professor Sharma examines critically theoretical and methodological issues in the essays included in this volume. A preference for the structural-historical approach with interdisciplinary focus is evident in it. Further, the book provides a comprehensive and critical review of the studies on social stratification particularly from a sociology of knowledge perspective. The debate regarding caste and class is presented with a refreshing analysis in terms of their nexus and continuity and change. Gaps between theory and method in respect of the studies on social stratification in India have also been pointed out. A note of Louis Dumont's ""Homo Hierarchicus"" provides a brief, though critical, account of the structuralist perspective on caste stratification. Profiles of social stratification in specific settings such as urban-industrial, rural-agrarian and tribal provide a semblance of theoretical issues and empirical realities. Essays on social stratification and mobility among the scheduled castes, in particular, highlight the caste-class nexus. How ethnicity and class influence social relations among the tribal people is discussed in detail. Although, social mobility is discussed as a concurrent theme in all the essays, levels of social mobility, downward social mobility and social mobility among the scheduled castes have been analyzed specifically in the book. The book encompasses all that which one would normally like to know about social stratification in India."

Asia

Rawat Publications

"Social stratification as a theme of study and research in sociology occupies a place of immense significance. Structural, ideological and emotional issues, involved in the study of social stratification, have created controversies and diametrically contrary viewpoints. Professor Sharma examines critically theoretical and methodological issues in the essays included in this volume. A preference for the structural-historical approach with interdisciplinary focus is evident in it. Further, the book provides a comprehensive and critical review of the studies on social stratification particularly from a sociology of knowledge perspective. The debate regarding caste and class is presented with a refreshing analysis in terms of their nexus and continuity and change. Gaps between theory and method in respect of the studies on social stratification in India have also been pointed out. A note of Louis Dumont's ""Homo Hierarchicus"" provides a brief, though critical, account of the structuralist perspective on caste stratification. Profiles of social stratification in specific settings such as urban-industrial, rural-agrarian and tribal provide a semblance of theoretical issues and empirical realities. Essays on social stratification and mobility among the scheduled castes, in particular, highlight the caste-class nexus. How ethnicity and class influence social relations among the tribal people is discussed in detail. Although, social mobility is discussed as a concurrent theme in all the essays, levels of social mobility, downward social mobility and social mobility among the scheduled castes have been analyzed specifically in the book.The book encompasses all that which one would normally like to know about social stratification in India. "

Rawat Pubns

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