The Centre de Sciences Humaines is pleased to invite you to the CSH Seminar by
Divya VAID
(Jawaharlal Nehru University)
on
A Pathway to Intergenerational Social Mobility? The Impact of Education
Followed by a discussion with Sonalde DESAI (NCAER- National Data Innovation Centre)
Monday, 14 October 2024, from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm IST
Abstract:
The study of social mobility, specifically of the intergenerational movement between strata such as social class, has been an important strand of inquiry in the sociology of developed countries. In India, this research establishing macro patterns and trends is more recent within sociology with limited focus on the experiences of women. This talk drawing on national level data, establishes the macro trends in intergenerational social class mobility by gender, caste, community and rural-urban location, and explores the impact of education as a driver for this mobility. While comparing the patterns for women and men, it finds that urban women are distinct not only from other women, but from urban men, both in terms of social mobility chances and with regard to the role education plays.
Divya Vaid is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has an MSc and a DPhil from Oxford, UK. Her research interests include the study of social mobility and inequalities, social stratification, educational attainment, class and political participation, with an interest in the application of quantitative and mixed methods. Her work has appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology, Contemporary South Asia, Asian Survey, Studies in Indian Politics and the Economic and Political Weekly among others. She is the author of Uneven Odds: Social Mobility in Contemporary India, OUP, 2018, and has co-edited a volume on Marginalities and Mobilities Among India’s Muslims, Routledge, 2023.
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CSH Seminars are in hybrid mode. We request you to pre-register before Monday, 12 October, 2:00 p.m. IST for offline and online registration.
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