Caste

The caste and class system are both social dividers that determines the way one lives their life. In India, there is the caste system where citizens are split up into groups based on birth and religious purity. The lower caste are workers, servants, or the untouchables who are commonly treated differently than higher castes. The lower the class the less money, privilege, and respect one is given. Much like the caste system in India, modern day United States has a class system categorizing people into groups regularly because of money. The lower the class, the less opportunity one has in the U.S. to receive an education, get a job, or even be treated the same as others. The strength of a country’s system is measured in how people are affected…

Major points Caste Society is a system which the social levels are closed so that people remain at the same social level as when they were born. Social status is based on race, religion or parental caste. Class society is mobility that allows people to change their socioeconomic position. They are first based off economically, class is determined by weather it was earned or inherited. Second, class is relatively fluid, the boundaries between classes can be crossed. Third, class status is by…

The different major castes are frequently referred to in the ancient Indian texts. The four classes were the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas, and the Shudras. Mesopotamian civilization was much more stratified than the Egyptian, but there was no religious element as in the caste system of India, and kings were not considered Gods. Social status was apparently determined by wealth. At the top of the social scale were kings and noblemen. At the bottom were slaves, normally prisoners of war,…

essentially caste dominated during 18th and 19th century. Majority of the people belonged to Hindu, Muslim, and Christian religion. Hindus society where sharply divided into castes and sub castes. Whole society was divided in the basis of caste. The settlements were also based on the cast. People of higher class lived in big buildings called mana and people of lower caste were lived in small huts near their work space. Brahmins or namboothiris where at the top. The observance of pollution in the…

Caste system is rigid in genetic background, occupation, socialization, and marriage. Affiliation within a division of caste is based on birth. Marriages are mandatory within a caste, education is based on the caste, occupation is strongly determined by caste, and mobility is impossible. The United States class system is mobile, marriages are mobile, education obtainable, and the structure of the class is determined by various factors with complete mobility to move within other classes.…

The caste system in India is a system that segregates people into a hierarchy of social classes, namely Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras and Dalit, based on family lineage and occupations. Even though the caste system dates way back in the ancient Hindu life but it was only formalized under the British colonial rule. Since then, the rigid caste system, which restricts social mobility for the lower castes and the Untouchables, has been internationally criticized for being oppressive and…

Summing Up So Far-How did India's Caste system differ from China’s class system. The caste system was in a sense is rank based on religious status and ritual purity. China’s class system differed in the sense that it was more about political rank, where officials could get higher political ranking in contrast to people of the caste system that couldn’t become purer. India’s caste system divided society into distinct social groups. In china the social groups were fewer and more general -…

Change in the Caste System The caste system is a system which decides a person’s social status and trade by his or her birth. The four castes and the untouchables determined the basic structure of the Hindu society when the caste system had begun till now. The untouchables were considered so impure by society that they were not even considered part of the caste system. The caste system equally applied to both men and women, boys and girls inherited their father’s caste when they were born.…

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CASTE SYSTEM: The Caste system in India, which is believed to be more than two thousand years old, was supposedly formed on the basis of the occupation that one was involved in. The caste system originally meant to divide the people on the basis of their occupation like teaching and preaching (Brahmins), kingship and war (Kshatriya), business (vaishyas) and Servants doing menial jobs (Shudras) etc. but soon it became the means to divide the society into various sections…

Traditionally, the organization of the Indian social classes relies on the caste system, a system introduced some 3,000 years ago by Aryan invaders in India. This system divided the existing Indian society into a hierarchy according to professions and trades. Additionally, individuals inherit their parents' caste at birth (Ninian, 189). Parents pass down their caste and property to future generations, and marriages usually occur within castes. Due to supposed divine origins of the caste system,…