Social mobility among scheduled caste of Madhubani district of Bihar

Abstract

In Indian society, caste is a powerful organization that is provided a structure for arranging and organizing social groups in terms of their statuses and positions in the social and economic system. This division makes the person aware of the position and presentation in the social institution, as well as socializing them through values and statues. After Independence, there has been a growing awareness and concern for the degraded socio economic condition of the Scheduled Castes. For this, efforts are being made in collaboration with different organizations and institutions to inculcate and encourage them to merge with the socio economic fabric of the country. The India caste system is based on the principle inequality whether those inequalities (Social and Economic) are going too diminished or perpetuated further in the period of globalization? Are they being able to compete with the changing scenario? What will happen with their occupations? Are they able to get quality education? What changes has come into their lifestyles? Do they have new skills to get the benefits mobility? Is there any social and occupational mobility among them in view of globalization, education, occupation are they stagnated? Etc. needs to be answer if they have to become a citizen of a global community dreamed as a knowledge society. Always, judge the things from the upper level but what about the bottom in the caste system society? Therefore keeping all these questions in mind, we want to express the social mobility among schedule castes in Madhubani and Champaran districts of Bihar state. The main objective of the present study is to analysis the mobility from the bottom level among schedule castes through education, income, occupation, and inter caste relationship. Data in hand revealed that socio-economic status and educational levels have a significant correlation and it is concluded that Scheduled Caste having a high level of education would achieve a high socio-economic status and vice-versa. It is also clarified that educat