HLTHAGE 1BB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Constitution Of India, Conflict Theories, Yamuna
25 Sep 2013
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Inequality: the extent to which culturally valued material and social rewards are allocated disproportionately to individuals, families, and other groups. Social differentiation and stratification inevitably accompanies the emergence of a productive economy based on agriculture: At the very bottom of the pyramid are the mass of peasants, who produce for the benefit of a clerical, military, and political elite. There is a rough correspondence between the types of political organization, as schematized by elman. Service, and the degree of equality and inequality, as devised by morton fried. Keep in mind: these are ideal-types, and therefore simplify reality, which tends to be more complex. We are, in reality, always dealing with continua, and not clear-cut categories. Untouchables (out-castes allocated menial work: street sweepers, latrine cleaners, laundresses, tanners, skinners, gravediggers, etc. ). A varna is a system of economic cooperation between members of a series of endogamous and occupationally-specialized groups, organized at the local level as jatis .
