Marilyn Fernandez

The New Frontier

Merit vs. Caste in the Indian It Sector

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Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses pertinent issues around the role and status of caste in the new private occupational IT sector that boasts of merit as the ultimate equalizer. The author finds that in spite of the narrative of equality and justice, caste and gender status continues to influence access to IT education and in the new IT occupations in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199479498
• ISBN-10: 0199479496
• Artikelnr.: 51908054

Autorenporträt

Marilyn Fernandez is professor of Sociology at Santa Clara University in California, USA. Her research interests include diversity, inequality, and organizational change. She is a former Vice President of the Pacific Sociological Association and former Co-editor of the journal Sociological Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgement
* 1: The Indian Information Technology Sector: The New Caste Inequality
Frontier
* 2: Merit Construction and Caste Loopholes in the Indian IT Social
Habitus
* 3: Merit vs Caste "Blood Sport" in the IT Work Arena: Implications
for Caste Reproduction
* 4: Information Technology Education: Prelude to the Caste-Merit
'Blood Sport' and Caste Reproduction
* 5: Merit and Gender Diversity: Lessons About Caste Diversity in
Indian IT
* 6: Indian Information Technology, the New Caste Frontier:
Deconstructing Caste Reproduction
* Appendices
* Bibliography
* Index
* About the Author