This study is the first known academic study on the intergroup dynamics relationship between Indonesian Marxists and jihadists. The appearance of jihadist language within the group context raised questions if the ideological motivation and group orientation between the militants is eroding and a...

Are those on the top of social hierarchy happier? Research on happiness is dominated by ‘material’ economic theory and proposes that individuals enjoying high class, and the accompanying higher monetary earning capacities, should experience more subjective well-being than others. This paper...

Neoliberal transformation is not simply a top-down process. Neoliberal hegemony at the global level has an ally in the Indian elite in producing class-biased economic growth at the national scale. Tis paper examines the social contestations around India’s economic policy regime, its...

Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...

Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have the potential to stall the process of economic...

This paper studies how traditional networks in rural and urban India have responded to economic development. In rural areas, the impact of the Green Revolution on within-network inequality has resulted in defection by the wealthiest members of caste-based social insurance networks. In Bombay,...

This paper analyses inequality and poverty in India within the context of caste-based discrimination. It does so by decomposing the difference between (caste) Hindu and Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) households in: their average household incomes; their probabilities of being in...

Since the neoliberal reforms to British education in the 1980s, education debates have been saturated with claims to the efficacy of the market as a mechanism for improving the content and delivery of state education. In recent decades with the expansion and ‘massification’ of higher...

This field-based lab experiment investigates how people in India detect each others' caste, and with what levels of accuracy they do it. It also investigate the abilities of people to pass off as belonging to caste groups to which they do not belong. Caste-based discrimination is possible when...

Further training, labor market, stratification, social inequality, life course. - Further training is understood as any professionally-oriented course or formalized work-related learning activity; it takes place after leaving formal education and entering the labor market. A large body of...