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SOCIAL INEQUALITIES- CASTE AND CLASS

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SOCIAL INEQUALITIES- CASTE AND CLASS BY MARY KAY To what extent can relations of caste be explained by class relations? Today, we acknowledge the fact that we have a set structure in place to understand how things and people work within a society. As Professor Raja Jayaraman would have it "the social structure of a society is the product of the interaction of different variables such as ecology, technology, economy and culture." (3) While these are an integral part of society I predominantly want to focus your attention on the Class system working the western world. While Australia is a multicultural society, we must see ourselves as one and part of one system and we must recognise ourselves as a westernised culture. But to veer away from this for a moment we must concede that this structure differs in each culture. Here I introduce caste. To further grasp these concepts of...

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