Social mobility among scheduled caste women a sociological study

Abstract

The present study was conducted to examine the Social Mobility among Scheduled Caste women residing in Punjab. It was a comparative study to assess the intergenerational Social mobility among two generations of Scheduled Caste women (i.e. mother and daughter). The study attempted to investigate how far modern education, employment pattern, and government policies contributes to social mobility amongst the two generation Scheduled caste women, which has been denied opportunities for mobility due to the double discrimination of caste and sex. The research work is based on Primary data collected from the urban and the rural areas of two districts of Punjab i.e., Mansa and Roopnagar using the interview schedule method from 300 respondents; selecting 75 each and ten case studies. newline