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In our society Hierarchical relations are influenced by social mobility. Explain how?

  • UPSC 2012
  • Stratification and Mobility

Hierarchical relations are the everyday patterns of deference, dominance, distance and dependence between ranked groups: who sits where, who serves whom, who decides. In Indian society these were governed mainly by caste, gender and land. Social mobility changes them because every move up or down alters how groups deal with one another, not just a…

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  • 1. Status incongruence and re-ranking
  • 2. Secular power reorders local dominance
  • 3. Imitation and conflict between neighbouring ranks
  • 4. From imitation to rejection
  • 5. New hierarchies within mobile groups
  • 6. Stability through mobility
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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