Discuss the major changes in the indian caste system as described by sociological studies on insights on india
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Sociological studies insights on india
1. Demographic Changes : Lower birth rates for people in upper strata forces recruitment of people from lower levels of heirarchy .
2.Sponsored Mobility : Various communities owing to decreee of king acquired higher status
3. Democratic Changes: One person One Vote , empowering hitherto sidelined communities to access power and become upwardly mobile
4. Talent and training : Individual talent , education facilitates mobility in an open system
5. Social movement/ Revolution: Beneficiaries of successful movements . Different reform movements
6. Changes in the stratification system itself.: If caste system changes to class system , a rich trader will be move up in social heirarchy .
7. Sanskritization / Westernization : Emulation of the reference groups in upper levels of stratification . Functionalist argue that startification system motivates people to work for social mobility