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Author : Edwin D. Driver
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004081062
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Social Class in Urban Indian written by Edwin D. Driver and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Dickey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813583942
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Living Class in Urban India written by Sara Dickey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the “second-tier” city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents’ palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes. Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.
Author : Aloo E Driver
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004676740
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Social Class in Urban India written by Aloo E Driver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christiane Brosius
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704833
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book India's Middle Class written by Christiane Brosius and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being in contemporary urban India. Rich in ethnographic material, the work is based on empirical case-studies, research material, and illustrations. Offering a model of how urban cosmopolitan India might be studied and understood in a transnational and transcultural context, the book takes the reader through three panoramic landscapes: new ‘world-class’ real estate advertising, a unique religious leisure site — the Akshardham Cultural Complex, and the world of themed weddings and beauty/wellness, all responses to India’s new middle classes’ tryst with cosmopolitanism. The work will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers in sociology, South Asian studies, media studies, anthropology and urban studies as also those interested in religion, performance and rituals, diaspora, globalisation and transnational migration.
Author : Amanda Gilbertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199091625
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Within the Limits written by Amanda Gilbertson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s ‘new’ middle classes have gained increasing prominence in media, political, and public imaginings since the liberalization of the economy in the 1990s. As a growing number of Indians living in an extraordinary variety of socio-economic circumstances are identifying as middle class, a concrete definition of this category remains elusive. Within the Limits explores what being ‘middle class’ means to those who identify as such. Set against the backdrop of the south Indian city of Hyderabad, this work highlights the importance of moralized language of respectability and cosmopolitanism in the production of class and gender in India. The book charts how diverse understandings of the moral limits of middle-class being shape consumption patterns, education strategies, attitudes toward caste, shifting marriage ideals, and youth cultures of fashion and dating in the city.
Author : Ranvinder Singh Sandhu
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Urbanization in India written by Ranvinder Singh Sandhu and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2003-10-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together papers by well-known scholars that look at various aspects of the urbanization phenomenon in India, including the folk-urban continuum, social stratification, neighbourhood and family, and slum-dwellers and migrants./-//-/This book is one of the Indian Sociological Society: Golden Jubilee Volumes.
Author : David Sancho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317663942
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Youth, Class and Education in Urban India written by David Sancho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector. Since 1991, this important new market in private English-medium schools, along with an explosion of private coaching centres, has transformed the lives of children and their families, as the attainment of the best education nurtures the aspirations of a growing number of Indian citizens. Set in urban Kerala, the book discusses changing educational landscapes in the South Indian city of Kochi, a local hub for trade, tourism, and cosmopolitan middle-class lifestyles. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines the way education features as a major way the transformation of the city, and India in general, are experienced and envisaged by upwardly-mobile residents. Schooling is shown to play a major role in urban lifestyles, with increased privatisation representing a response to the educational strategies of a growing and heterogeneous middle class, whose educational choices reflect broader projects of class formation within the context of religious and caste diversity particular to the region. This path-breaking new study of a changing Indian middle class and new relationships with educational institutions contributes to the growing body of work on the experiences and meanings of schooling for youths, their parents, and the wider community and thereby adds a unique, anthropologically informed, perspective to South Asian studies, urban studies and the study of education.
Author : W. S. K. Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Social Stratification and Mobility in Urban India written by W. S. K. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Dickey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813583934
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Living Class in Urban India written by Sara Dickey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the “second-tier” city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents’ palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes. Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.
Author : Giri Raj Gupta
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Urban India written by Giri Raj Gupta and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1983 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles on social organization.
Author : Geert de Neve
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135392153
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of the Local written by Geert de Neve and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By zooming in on urban localities in India and by unpacking the 'meaning of the local' for those who live in them, the ten papers in this volume redress a recurrent asymmetry in contemporary debates about globalisation. In much literature, the global is associated with transnationalism, dynamism and activity, and the local with static identities and history. Focusing on a range of locales in India's metropolitan areas and provincial small towns, the contributions move beyond the assertion that space is socially constructed to explore the ways in which social and political relations are themselves spatially and historically contingent. Using detailed ethnography, the authors highlight the vitality of place-making in the lives of urban dwellers and the centrality of a 'politics of place' in the production of power, difference and inequality. The volume illustrates how urban spaces are increasingly interconnected through wider social and spatial processes, while local boundaries and group-based identities are at the same time reconstructed, and often even consolidated, through the use of 'traditional' idioms and localised practices. All contributions relate detailed case studies of everyday activities to a range of contemporary debates that highlight various spatial aspects of cultural identities, economic restructuring and political processes in India. The volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on urban life in rapidly changing political and economic environments. It offers a contribution to policy-orientated debates on urban livelihoods and urban planning as well as a wealth of ethnographic material for those interested in the spatial dimensions of urban life in India.
Author : Smriti Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000991407
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India written by Smriti Singh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and changing socio-spatial dynamics in urban areas in the country. It looks at class as a socio-spatial category where class distinction is tied to and manifests itself through the space of the city. With a detailed ethnographic study of the national capital region of Delhi, especially Gurugram, it explores themes such as class subjectivity, morality and social beliefs; life inside gated enclaves; family and everyday practices of class reproduction; and the process of othering and exclusivity, among others. Class identity, vulnerability and hierarchy influence the actions and motivations of the middle class. The author studies the nuances and socio-political fractures stemming from the complex dynamic of class, caste, religion and gender that manifest in these neo-urban spaces and how these shape the city and community. Rich in empirical resources, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, political sociology, ethnography, urban sociology, urban studies and South Asian studies.
Author : Stephanie Stocker
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839438853
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Caste and Equality written by Stephanie Stocker and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caste hierarchy has frequently been singled out as the overriding principle of Indian society. This book examines its significance among the highly-educated middle class in the Tamil town of Madurai. As part of their distinctive status as `educated persons', young graduates form egalitarian constellations by ostensibly subverting the boundaries inscribed by caste hierarchy. Stephanie Stocker explores how these friendships are maintained in wider social contexts, finding that the actors engage in supportive networks throughout career and marriage events. Instead of assuming these relationships to be of an entirely different, `alternative category', however, Stocker's study proposes a dynamic character of friendship which in fact remains in conjunction with Indian values of hierarchy.
Author : David Sancho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317663934
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Youth, Class and Education in Urban India written by David Sancho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector. Since 1991, this important new market in private English-medium schools, along with an explosion of private coaching centres, has transformed the lives of children and their families, as the attainment of the best education nurtures the aspirations of a growing number of Indian citizens. Set in urban Kerala, the book discusses changing educational landscapes in the South Indian city of Kochi, a local hub for trade, tourism, and cosmopolitan middle-class lifestyles. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines the way education features as a major way the transformation of the city, and India in general, are experienced and envisaged by upwardly-mobile residents. Schooling is shown to play a major role in urban lifestyles, with increased privatisation representing a response to the educational strategies of a growing and heterogeneous middle class, whose educational choices reflect broader projects of class formation within the context of religious and caste diversity particular to the region. This path-breaking new study of a changing Indian middle class and new relationships with educational institutions contributes to the growing body of work on the experiences and meanings of schooling for youths, their parents, and the wider community and thereby adds a unique, anthropologically informed, perspective to South Asian studies, urban studies and the study of education.
Author : Dipankar Gupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Social Stratification written by Dipankar Gupta and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of sociological essays on four main themes in Indian culture: caste, caste profiles, class and conflict.
Author : Dipali Saha
Publisher : Global Vision Pub House
ISBN 13 : 9788182201873
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Sociology of Social Stratification written by Dipali Saha and published by Global Vision Pub House. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Book, Author Has Presented Multidimensional Approach Of Social Stratification In Western And Indian Sociology In Six Chapters: Social Stratification In Social System; Social Thought For Social Change; Social Class And Class Culture; Pattern Of Stratification Systems; Process Of Indian Social Stratification; And Caste Stratification In Indian Society. This Work Is An Ambitious, Scholarly, And Provocative, And Hopes This Book Will Stimulate Researchers And Professionals To Execute Researches In This Area.
Author : Henrike Donner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136513396
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Being Middle-class in India written by Henrike Donner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India’s middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a number of case studies, ranging from a historical account detailing the making of a savvy middle-class consumer in the late colonial period, to saving clubs among women in Delhi’s upmarket colonies and the dilemmas of entrepreneurial families in Tamil Nadu’s industrial towns. The book pays tribute to the diversity of regional, caste, rural and urban origins that shape middle- class lifestyles in contemporary India and highlights common themes, such as the quest for upward mobility, common consumption practices, the importance of family values, gender relations and educational trajectories. It unpacks the notion that the Indian middle-class can be understood in terms of public performances, surveys and economic markers, and emphasises how the study of middle-class culture needs to be based on detailed studies, as everyday practices and private lives create the distinctive sub-cultures and cultural politics that characterise the Indian middle class today. With its focus on private domains middleclassness appears as a carefully orchestrated and complex way of life and presents a fascinating way to understand South Asian cultures and communities through the prism of social class.
