Answer to Question #207841 in Sociology for shritha

Question

1.    How do we understand class and upward social mobility in the contemporary Indian society?

Answer 1

Indian social stratification is based on the caste system which means the leadership is closed rigid and immobility. Therefore the individual rank of class status in Indian society is defined by birth and where the structure is hierarchically arrange and the upward mobility is hereditary where the individuals inherit leadership within the same household.