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    Caste and class are both hierarchical social systems that divide people into ranks, but they differ in important ways. Caste is an closed, hereditary system specific to the Indian subcontinent where one's social status is determined at birth and membership is defined by religious customs. In contrast, class is a more flexible, global system based primarily on economic differences where social status can change and is not defined by laws or religion. While both involve social stratification, caste relies more heavily on non-economic factors like religion and ritual purity.

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    Caste and class are both hierarchical social systems that divide people into ranks, but they differ in important ways. Caste is an closed, hereditary system specific to the Indian subcontinent where one's social status is determined at birth and membership is defined by religious customs. In contrast, class is a more flexible, global system based primarily on economic differences where social status can change and is not defined by laws or religion. While both involve social stratification, caste relies more heavily on non-economic factors like religion and ritual purity.

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    Caste and class are both hierarchical social systems that divide people into ranks, but they differ in important ways. Caste is an closed, hereditary system specific to the Indian subcontinent where one's social status is determined at birth and membership is defined by religious customs. In contrast, class is a more flexible, global system based primarily on economic differences where social status can change and is not defined by laws or religion. While both involve social stratification, caste relies more heavily on non-economic factors like religion and ritual purity.

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    Caste VS Class Found in

    Depend
    mainly on
    Indian sub- Status economic
    continent Group differences
    only
    Both Not
    Known as hierarchical established
    closed by legal or
    classes Both are religious
    ideological or provisions
    constructed
    Organic systems
    No formal
    system
    restrictions

    CLASS
    SIMILARITIES
    CASTE They both center around social status, and
    Between groupings of individuals—
    one of the best-known forms of close inequalities in possession and control
    in both, people are divided into several
    system of stratification. While it is a of material resources—whereas in
    ranks.
    social system of decreasing caste system non-economic factors
    importance, it still holds in parts of such as influence of religion [theory of
    Meaning they are organized like a ladder,
    rural India, and has a strong legacy karma, rebirth and ritual (purity-
    with a few people on the top rungs, more
    across the country. pollution)] are most important.
    people on the various middle rungs, and
    many crowded on the bottom rungs.
    It is a closed system of stratification Membership is not based on inherited
    in which almost all sons end up in position as specified either legally or
    hat are strongly buffered with a narrative
    precisely the same stratum their by custom. On the other hand, the
    that states the system in question reflects a
    fathers occupied. membership is inherited in the caste
    divine plan or order. In the West, the idea of
    system.
    a "great chain of being" envisioned the
    Caste system is an organic system
    entire universe organized hierarchically,
    but class has a segmentary character on inter-dining and inter-marriage
    with God on top and then a descending
    where various segments are between people from different classes
    order ending somewhere with insects or
    motivated by competition (Leach, as is found in the caste system.
    very simple life forms.
    1960). Endogamy is the essence of caste
    system which is perpetuating it.

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