Keyword

caste system

Description: A form of social stratification that organizes people into hereditary groups with unequal status, especially associated with Indian society.

Primary topic: South Asian Studies and Diaspora (48%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q12108988

OpenAlex ID: keywords/caste-system

Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications.

1971 · Gerald D. Berreman, Louis Dumont · Man · 2,310

Private truths, public lies: the social consequences of preference falsification

1996 · Choice Reviews Online · 955

Caste and ecology in the social insects.

1978 · G F Oster, E O Wilson · PubMed · 720

Eusociality in a Mammal: Cooperative Breeding in Naked Mole-Rat Colonies

1981 · J. U. M. Jarvis · Science · 697

Traditional Institutions Meet the Modern World: Caste, Gender, and Schooling Choice in a Globalizing Economy

2006 · Kaivan Munshi, Mark Rosenzweig · American Economic Review · 613

This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India

1993 · Sharad Chari, Madhav Gadgil, et al. · Economic Geography · 537

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

1975 · Marjorie C. Meehan · JAMA · 470

History, Social Divisions, and Public Goods in Rural India

2005 · Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, et al. · Journal of the European Economic Association · 439

The definition of eusociality

1995 · Bernard J. Crespi, Douglas Yanega · Behavioral Ecology · 402

Caste and division of labor in leaf-cutter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Atta)

1980 · Edward O. Wilson · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 382

Toward an Ethnosociology of South Asian Caste Systems

1977 · McKIM MARRIOTT, RONALD B. INDEN · Mouton eBooks · 311

Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens

2018 · Uma Chakravarti, Maithreyi Krishnaraj · Sage eBooks · 280

Interrogating caste : understanding hierarchy and difference in Indian society

2000 · Dipankar Gupta · 260

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

2020 · Isabel Wilkerson · Journal of Bioresource Management · 249

Everyday life in South Asia

2002 · Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb · 237

Ants at work: how an insect society is organized

2000 · Choice Reviews Online · 233

Untouchability in Rural India

2007 · Jon Davies · Community Development Journal · 226

Gender Inequality and Fertility in Two Nepali Villages

1995 · S. Philip Morgan, Bhanu B. Niraula · Population and Development Review · 223

How to model an institution

2008 · John W. Mohr, Harrison C. White · Theory and Society · 220

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India

1995 · Rai Bahadur Hira Lal R. V. Russell · 218

Origins and Divergence of the Roma (Gypsies)

2001 · David Gresham, Bharti Morar, et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics · 207

The Social Structure and Reproductive Biology of Colonies of the Mole-Rat, Cryptomys damarensis (Rodentia, Bathyergidae)

1988 · N. C. Bennett, J. U. M. Jarvis · Journal of Mammalogy · 205

Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

2015 · Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 204

Life history and development ‐ a framework for understanding developmental plasticity in lower termites

2008 · Judith Korb, Klaus Hartfelder · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 201

Variation in genomic recombination rates among animal taxa and the case of social insects

2007 · L Wilfert, J Gadau, et al. · Heredity · 199

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