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Degrees Without Freedom? - 9780804757430

Un libro in lingua di Craig Jeffrey Patricia Jeffery Roger Jeffery edito da Stanford Univ Pr, 2007

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The authors (a professor of geography and international studies at the U. of Washington, US, and two professors of sociology at the U. of Edinburgh, UK) report on their ethnographic study of the post-educational strategies of young men educated through the eighth grade in the rural west of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. After describing how the liberalization of the Indian economy has created a large stratum of educated unemployed and underemployed young men in the region, they identify four "analytical sets" of men, each of which is analyzed separately. These analytical sets are: young men belonging to the relatively prosperous Jat caste who have used inherited wealth and social networks to enter managerial roles within agriculture or status-saving work within the private sector, educated Dalits (once known as "untouchables") who have channeled employment frustration into becoming lobbyists and social animators for their community, Muslims who responded to unemployment and underemployment by entering craft occupation in urban areas or religious work in madrasahs or mosques, and poorer Dalits and others unable to acquire secure work and ill-equipped to cultivate sustainable or self-affirming fallback identities. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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