Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
What, according to you, are the factors responsible for the continuance of caste system in India? Explain.
Caste has outlived every force once expected to end it — abolition of untouchability, industrial employment, urban anonymity, mass schooling. It survives not because Indians remain devout about purity, but because the mechanisms that reproduce caste groups were never dismantled; they migrated into modern institutions. Five factors, in my judgement, carry it.
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- Endogamy, the hard core
- Ritual sanction and household socialisation
- Caste as social capital
- Political utility and legal institutionalisation
- Residence and the migration of caste into modern sectors
- Conclusion
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