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Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (16 November 1916 – 30 November 1999) [1] was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. [2] He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of 'dominant caste'.
Inequality and Social Change, Oxford University Press, 1972. Castes: Old and New, Essays in Social Structure and Social Stratification, Asia Publishing House, 1969. Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village, University of California Press, 1965.
Between 1980 and 2009 Gupta was a professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre for the Study of Social Systems. Between 1990 and 2007 he was co-editor of Contributions to Indian Sociology He started and led KPMG 's Business Ethics and Integrity Division, New Delhi; was a member of the National Security Advisory Board and the News ...
Collins argues sex, smoking, and social stratification and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. His Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up ...
The social status variables underlying social stratification are based in social perceptions and attitudes about various characteristics of persons and peoples. While many such variables cut across time and place, the relative weight placed on each variable and specific combinations of these variables will differ from place to place over time.
Patriarchy is a social system in which the primary positions of authority are held by men, in the areas of political leadership, moral authority and control of property. [21] Sociologist Sylvia Walby defines patriarchy as "a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress, and exploit women". [2]
The conical clan was also the form of social organization among many peoples in Pre-Columbian America, like the Aztecs (calpulli), [111] the Inka (in fact this anthropological concept was created by Kirchoff to describe the form of Inka social organization, the ayllu; [112] see also Isabel Yaya's description of the Inca ayllu in her work "The ...
Akshay Ramanlal Desai (26 April 1915 – 12 November 1994) was an Indian sociologist, Marxist [1] and a social activist. [2] He was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology in University of Bombay in 1967. [3]