Caste differentiation: secondary features [EA069]

Description: Secondary type of caste differentiation. See also "Caste differentiation: primary".

Code # Code
1 Caste distinctions absent or insignificant
2 One or more despised occupational groups, e.g., smiths or leather workers, distinguished from the general population, regarded as outcastes by the latter, and characterized by strict endogamy
3 Ethnic stratification, in which a superordinate caste withholds privileges from and refuses to intermarry with a subordinate caste (or castes) which it stigmatizes as ethnically alien, e.g., as descended from a conquered and culturally inferior indigenous population, from former slaves, or from foreign immigrants of different race and/or culture
4 Complex caste stratification in which occupational differentiation emphasizes hereditary ascription and endogamy to the near exclusion of achievable class statuses
9 No secondary type

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Dataset:
Murdock et al. 1999 'Ethnographic Atlas'
Variable:
Caste differentiation: secondary features [EA069]
Description:
Secondary type of caste differentiation. See also "Caste differentiation: primary".
Values:
1 Absence of distinctions 0
2 Despised occupation groups 4
3 Ethnic stratification 3
4 Complex caste stratification 0
9 No secondary type 1096
Datapoint Society Language family Details Focal year Subcase