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Bring out the relationship between social class and mortality.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Social Classes in India

Mortality is the hardest measure of what Max Weber called life chances — the probabilities of advantage that follow from a person's market position. Where death rates vary systematically by class, stratification is no longer a matter of prestige or attitude but embodied: inequality written into the body's survival.

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  • The classic evidence: a gradient, not a threshold
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  • The Indian specificity: caste compounds class
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