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Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement [PDF]
Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement.
Fehr, Ernst +2 more
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Mahatma Gandhi’s evaluation of the caste system as an element of the national independence movement in India [PDF]
, 1998 Castes still determine the social reality of India in many fields and affect politics more and more by functioning as vote banks which are decisive in elections.
Stein, Jürgen
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Humanities, 2023 India’s complex social fabric is marked by a rigid caste system that has perpetuated discrimination and marginalisation for centuries. The caste structure not only establishes clear boundaries between castes through endogamous social relations, but also ...
Bianca Cherechés
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BALINESE CASTE SYSTEM: A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING TO OKA RUSMINI’SEARTH DANCE [PDF]
, 2015 This research aimed to make meaning from the Balinese caste system presented in Oka Rusmini's Earth Dance.The modification of deconstructive reading proposed by Barry (2002) was used as the method of the research to analyze the dynamics and complexities ...
Widianto, Sofyan
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Documenting hidden apartheid in the Indian diaspora
Pacific Journalism ReviewCommentary: This article provides an account of an independent filmmaker’s work in documenting some of the stories from the global Indian diaspora. Based in Aotearoa New Zealand, with ancestral connections to Fiji, East Africa, UK, US and India, and ...
Mandrika Rupa
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Caste in South Asia: From Ritual Hierarchy to Politics of Difference
Politeja, 2016 Caste has been in existence for centuries in South Asia, though its forms and contents vary across the region. Caste is a mode of power, a weapon of action and one of the criteria of making people’s collective identity within groups.
Madhusudan Subedi
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An Economic Theory of Academic Engagement Norms: The Struggle for Popularity and Normative Hegemony in Secondary Schools [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] Why and how do groups create norms? Kenneth Arrow proposed that “norms of social behavior, including ethical and moral codes, ….are reactions of society to compensate for market failure”.
Bishop, John H, Bishop, Michael M
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Is There A Caste System In India? [PDF]
, 1984 American news media as well as American textbooks, both college and secondary schools, present India as a unique society because it practices the caste system, which is then described in terms of its presumed traditional characteristics.
Thomas, Abraham V.
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On the convergence of autonomous agent communities [PDF]
, 2010 This is the post-print version of the final published paper that is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2010 IOS Press and the authors.Community is a common phenomenon in natural ecosystems, human societies as well as artificial multi-agent ...
Wang, F, Wang, S, Zhu, H
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