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Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion

Haryana Board · Class 12 · Sociology

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Understanding Social Inequality and Exclusion

  • Social inequality refers to unequal access to social resources like money, property, education, health, and power
  • Three forms of capital: Economic (material assets), Cultural (education/status), Social (networks/contacts)
  • Social stratification is a society-wide system that ranks categories of people in a hierarchy
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Caste-Based Inequality and Dalits

  • Caste system legitimizes discrimination based on birth and traditional occupation
  • Historical correlation between caste status and economic status remains strong at macro level
  • Untouchability is extreme form involving exclusion, humiliation-subordination, and exploitation
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Other Backward Classes (OBCs)

  • Constitutionally recognized as 'socially and educationally backward classes'
  • More diverse group than Dalits or Adivasis, defined negatively by what they are not
  • Include service and artisanal castes from lower rungs of caste hierarchy
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Adivasis and Tribal Communities

  • Term 'Adivasi' means 'original inhabitants', coined in 1930s as political assertion
  • Boundaries between 'tribe' and 'caste' are porous due to long historical interactions
  • Colonial period: forest rights severed, forced into wage labor or illegal forest use

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