Cultural Capital, Reference Group, and Social Mobility in India

The article "Rags to Riches? Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India" (EPW, 4 November 2017) by Iversen, Krishna and Sen examines intergenerational occupational mobility in India. This comment links this study with Krishna's earlier contribution, "Making It in India: Exa...

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Published inEconomic and political weekly Vol. 52; no. 50; pp. 88 - 89
Main Author PANDA, PRAMIL K
Format Journal Article Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Mumbai SAMEEKSHA TRUST 16.12.2017
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Subjects
Aesthetics
Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002)
Careers
Cultural capital
DISCUSSION
Education
Families & family life
Merton, Robert K
Occupational mobility
Role models
Rural areas
Social mobility
Social services
Social structure
Studies
Theory
Upward mobility
India
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United States > US
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Summary:The article "Rags to Riches? Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India" (EPW, 4 November 2017) by Iversen, Krishna and Sen examines intergenerational occupational mobility in India. This comment links this study with Krishna's earlier contribution, "Making It in India: Examining Social Mobility in Three Walks of Life" (EPW, 7 December 2013), and interprets these works alongside Bourdieu's (1986) and Merton's (1949) established theories of social mobility.
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ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846