a system of social stratification based on inherited status or ascription
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A complex network of interdependent, yet separated, hereditary, occupationally specialized, and hierarchal social groups in India. It is a distinctive social institution in India, guided by religious principles in Hinduism, and yet transcending Hinduism in the sense that non-Hindus also are subject to the caste system. The structure of the caste sy...
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n] - a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity
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The Caste system is an historic system of division based on birth. Its place/role within Hinduism is heavily contested and debated and many wish to disassociate it from the Hindu Traditions.
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The traditional social, economic and religious structure of Indian society, which divided people into four broad groups, or castes (“varna” in Sanskrit), and multiple smaller groups, or subcastes (“jati”). While it is believed that the system was once simply a division of labor and guild system, determined by skills and aptitude, it became ...
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noun a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity
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A system of stratification based on ascribed statuses.
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