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Write short note: Caste-system as a principle of social stratification.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social stratification ranks social groups in a durable hierarchy of rewards. The caste system is the purest example of stratification by birth. Membership, rank, occupation and marriage are ascribed at birth and justified by religious ideas of purity, whereas class ranks people by economic position.

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