Göran Djurfeldt
Professor emeritus
Agrarian Change and Social Mobility in Tamil Nadu
Författare
Summary, in English
This is a study of social mobility over 25 years in six villages in the former Tiruchy District in Tamil Nadu. The two most important external drivers are local industrialization and social policy in a broad sense. In a mainly descriptive analysis, it is shown that the overall effect seems to be a centripetal tendency in agrarian structure, with tendencies towards a strengthened position for family farming and for both the topdogs and the underdogs in the old agrarian society to leave agriculture altogether, seeking improved life chances in the non-agrarian economy, both inside the villages and in the wider economy. The descriptive analysis in this article is followed up with a modelling exercise in an accompanying article.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Economic and Political Weekly
Volym
43
Issue
45
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Dokumenttyp
Working paper
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- sociology India social mobility
Status
Published