Endogamy

Socio-cultural Oppression to Dalit a) Inter-caste Marriage Inter-caste marriage is prohibited in Hindu culture. Caste system only allows the endogamy system. However, the upper caste men have a freedom to use exogamy and polygamy. Upper caste man is allowed informal sexual rights to lower caste women but he does not give her a status of the wife because she is considered as an untouchable and impure. On the contrary, the upper caste woman is restricted to endogamous marriage and she is tied to the

The essay shall explore the concept of the jahiliyyah and demonstrate the importance and impact it has to understand the origins and development of Islam. The Jahiliyyah is a core and critical part of the foundations of Islam, that certain elements of the jahiliyyah were borrowed, adopted and developed; whilst other elements were discarded as Islam evolved. It is important as aspects of the jahiliyyah period continues to have an influence after the advent of Islam. Elements of the jahiliyyah such

The manifest function of schools in our society is to socialize children. School grooms young people for the various roles and positions they will hold later in life by teaching them reading, writing, mathematics and the sciences. The various activities and experiences at school help expose children to values that are important in our society such as capitalism, so-called democracy and environmentalism. The text suggests that one of the latent functions of schools is actually producing “passive,

The usual way that race labels are applied in the United States in everyday parlance and in government statistics fail to capture a phemenon poised to reshape how race is actually lived in America: the increase in multiracial marriages and births, which almost certainly will lead to more blended populations in future generations. As this trend continues, it will blur the racial fault lines of the last half of the twentieth century. The nation is not there yet. But the evidence for multiracial marriages

Hinduism teaches low-caste people that the way to elevate their status in their next life is by leading an honorable life this time around and not performing any acts of wrongdoings towards the caste system and others in different castes (Deshpande & Kerbo, 2010). Since a person can climb the social ladder through reincarnation they will be able to become a priest, if they reach Moksha and yoke their Atman with Brahman. Since becoming a priest could only be achieved through rising to the top of

Hello Rosanna, How are you? I hope all is well with you and your family. It has been a long time since we last spoke. You were always curious about my past experience and my outlook on life. With everything in life going fast paced, I never had that chance to fulfill that curiosity. At the moment, I am taking a sociology class which makes me look at my life from a sociological standpoint and I want to share with you some of my experiences and how it is influenced by society.

Marriage is assumed by United States citizens to be a basic human right. When asked, a child will usually say that yes, they do plan to one day be happily married. As we grow older, we realize that it is not that simple; that there are many stigmas placed on “nontraditional” marriages. Throughout the history of the United States, minorities have had to battle for their right to marry whomever they choose. Interfaith, interracial, and same-sex couples have discovered the hard way that the same

In Circe Sturm’s novel “Blood Politics: Races, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma” the history of the Cherokee people is put under a microscope and their obsession with blood percentages is examined in a new light. This new light allows one to draw their own conclusion about the Cherokee people and begin to understand how they have come so far and changed so much. The Cherokee people are an amazing group that has persisted through centuries of slavery, war, disease and more

Evidence suggests human presense in parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and even Russia over 9,000 years ago (Joessefson, 142). However, it would not be until thousands of years later that a highly unique and successful tribe would form, known as the Sami. While many Sami have assimilated into modern European culture, central traits still exists within this indigiouns group native to the Sapmi region. Some Sami still practice modes of subsistence, systems of marriage, kinship, social organization,

Prevention is the greatest protection A few years ago, my neighbor got married and was ready to have a baby. Unfortunately, he and his wife’s pre-pregnancy check showed that they had a thalassemia gene, and if they gave birth to a child, the child was likely to die because of severe thalassemia. Although they want to have a child belonging to themselves, they finally chose to adopt a child. Thalassemia is a common genetic disease in my province, the local government calls on all couples to accept