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AN ACCOUNT which suggests that student activism followed well defined patterns over the course of 338 years, Lipset is faced with the problem of explaining why in 1969 undergraduate radicalism was able to mount such a stunning attack on the University itself. He resolves the problem with two devices--one...
> On social identities: In Erikson's thinking, each person works out his or her identity in relation to a group that is worthy of respect-a nation, class, tribe, or caste. In recent years, however, he has downgraded the value of these groups, referring to them as dangerous "pseudo...
THOUGH CENTERED around the four well-to-do Bengalis, Days and Nights in the Forest does not lose sight of the mass of the Indian people. The four men are the Indian equivalents of American suburbanites, but in India there is no suburban isolation. Cross-caste encounters occur everywhere, and...
For one thing, he does not seem to think that his own life as a performer is all that interesting. This may not seem a lot to ask, but one of the consequences of a pervasive division of labor is that artists tend to see themselves as a caste apart...
The task required computer-like knowledge of each constituency's class, caste and religious makeup. In one area dominated by harijans, the untouchables, a member of the passi, or swineherd caste, was selected; in Brahman constituencies, Brahmans were chosen; in Moslem areas, which hold 16% of the state'...