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Write short note with a sociological perspective: André Béteille’s definition of class.
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- Rural and Agrarian Social Structure
André Béteille's Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village (1965), built on fieldwork in Sripuram, gave Indian sociology its working definition of class. He writes in a Weberian frame: class is one of three analytically distinct dimensions of stratification, alongside status (caste, ritual rank) and power (political office and influence),…
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- Class as position in the system of production and distribution
- Caste and class distinguished
- Continuum, consciousness and the disharmonic turn
- Critique
- Conclusion
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