Caste, class, and city : the shaping of religious social capital in contemporary India.

Stroope, Samuel M.

Caste, class, and city : the shaping of religious social capital in contemporary India.

dc.contributor.advisor	Froese, Paul.
dc.contributor.author	Stroope, Samuel M.
dc.contributor.department	Sociology.	en
dc.contributor.other	Baylor University. Dept. of Sociology.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2010-06-23T12:33:31Z
dc.date.available	2010-06-23T12:33:31Z
dc.date.copyright	2010-05
dc.date.issued	2010-06-23T12:33:31Z
dc.description	Includes bibliographical references (p. ).	en
dc.description.abstract	Building on the implications of qualitative work from India and urbanism theories, I aim to understand how religious bonding social capital in contemporary India varies along greater urbanization and whether social class or caste affects such differences. I use a multinomial logistic regression on 1,417 Hindu respondents in a nationally representative sample of India (World Values Survey-India 2001). Results indicate that religious social capital is fostered by urbanism and that this association is stronger for upper castes. Conversely, there is little evidence that social class similarly mediates the connection between urbanism and greater religious social capital. In light of these findings, religious bonding might be better understood as rooted in the interaction of caste dynamics and changes in the urban environment, rather than as a result of greater affluence. The data are also consistent with work underscoring the importance of disentangling social class and caste among Hindus in contemporary India.	en
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	by Samuel M. Stroope.	en
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2104/7975
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
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dc.subject	India.	en
dc.subject	Religion.	en
dc.subject	Community.	en
dc.title	Caste, class, and city : the shaping of religious social capital in contemporary India.	en
dc.type	Thesis	en