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caste/class and child‐rearing in a changing Indian town
Author(s) -
SEYMOUR SUSAN
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1976.3.4.02a00130
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , caste , diversity (politics) , socioeconomics , social class , sample (material) , dimension (graph theory) , demography , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , political science , mathematics , anthropology , population , chemistry , chromatography , pure mathematics , law , market economy
An investigation of child‐rearing practices among a stratified sample of households in an Indian town indicates that there are some significant differences in parent‐child behavior between lower socioeconomic status households and higher status ones. Certain economic factors are identified as affecting how adults handle children, and these are in turn related to differences in children's behavior. Some intra‐cultural diversity along one dimension, socioeconomic status, is demonstrated .