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Inherited status, identity and social reproduction
Birth-based rank is reproduced through endogamy, social policing, purity rules, signalling, and intra-group hierarchy.
This mechanism spine is a research hypothesis supplied by the package and must be tested expression by expression.
10 expressions
- Untouchability and everyday social exclusion ind-caste-001
- Local jati hierarchies and graded inequality ind-caste-002
- Caste endogamy and marriage-market closure ind-caste-003
- Coercion, ostracism and violence against inter-caste couples ind-caste-004
- Family, caste-panchayat and community enforcement of caste boundaries ind-caste-005
- Purity-and-pollution rules governing food, touch, commensality and proximity ind-caste-006
- Surname, name, accent, locality and social-network caste signalling ind-caste-007
- Forced caste disclosure, concealment and “passing” in institutions ind-caste-008
- Intra-Dalit, intra-SC, intra-OBC and sub-caste hierarchies ind-caste-009
- Persistence or transformation of caste after religious conversion ind-caste-010