Uneven Odds: Social Mobility in Contemporary India

ISBN-13: 9780199480142 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 356 str.

Divya Vaid

Opis

This book draws on national level datasets and advanced quantitative techniques to address the question of the rate of social mobility in Indian society. It underlines the fairly stable nature of Indian society, despite liberalization, and the critical role caste, class, gender and education play in this regard.

Recenzje

UnEven Odds is not only remarkable because it is the first book to really analyze class mobility in India, it is also a model of thorough quantitative analysis. It definitely opens the way for further quantitative research in social stratification as indicated in the book's conclusion.

O autorze

Divya Vaid teaches Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She holds an M.Sc. and a D.Phil. in Sociology from the University of Oxford. Prior to joining JNU, Divya held Postdoctoral positions at the Center for the Study of Inequality and the Life Course (CIQLE) at the Department of Sociology, Yale University; and at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. She specializes in the study of social mobility and inequality, with a keen interest in class and education, and gender and urban life. She teaches courses on Social Stratification, on Social Mobility and on Statistics.