Caste based educational institutions in Haryana: a sociological study

Abstract

The influence of castes is visuable in India today. Caste may be described as a perfectly rigidified or closed social system in which a hierarchy on the superiority inferiority continuum of strata is established, and in which membership is mandatory, hereditary, and exogamous. In his life, the person is born, lives and dies in his vertical position in the hierarchy. In terms of the ascribed-achieved roles continuum of society, caste is an undeviating set of ascribed roles. Incidentally, for many whom damn out of hand the workability etc. of caste, many great authorities points out that the great concentration of effort because of little conflict between people which is possible in a caste society, makes for a great productivity of the society at a certain level. In this study, we try to revise the theoretical issue To what extent education institutions of the caste provides the conditions for the acquisitions of skills as to attain status in society. For the analytical sociological enquiry into the role of caste based educational institutions in the process of social mobility the new issues may be raised for gathering the information about the practical possibilities of carrying out research in the real setting. Keeping in view the discovery of new ideas and insights, the exploratory type of research design has been employed. The exploratory research design helped us to the basic issues raised earlier, like educational pattern and the community or the caste based education institutions. Caste people experiencing the process of social mobility i.e. their changing occupational structure and economic status of the household etc. In order to study the role of caste based educational institutions in social mobility the following objectives were formulated. 1. To examine the educational structure with particular reference to the historical perspectives of the caste based educational institutions. 2. To examine the process of social mobility and the role of education.