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Write short notes with a sociological perspective on the following in about 150 words : Features of caste system.

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  • Caste System

Caste is a closed system of ascribed, ranked and endogamous groups whose boundaries are maintained by ritual rules. Its features have been specified three ways — as a list of attributes, as a single generative principle, and as a mechanism of domination — and the differences among them are sociologically more instructive than the list…

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  • The attributional list and its present status
  • The rival specifications
  • What has changed
  • Conclusion

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