Homo hierarchicus

By L. Dumont. 1969

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On formalizing fairness in prediction with machine learning (2017, background): “In practice, the biggest (in terms of the number of people affected) implementation of group fairness is the application of affirmative action (11) in India and USA to address discrimination on the basis of caste (14), race and gender.”
Labor market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment (2009, background): “Corresponding Author; Address for Correspondence: 4P-244, 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036. xDepartment of Economics, Harvard University”
Smart, Responsible, and Upper Caste Only: Measuring Caste Attitudes through Large-Scale Analysis of Matrimonial Profiles (2019, background): “The caste system divides people into groups and is organized based on perceived notions of “purity” and “pollution” (Dumont 1980).”
Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India (2013, background): “Castebased inequality is considered notoriously durable and has been the subject of a lot of work across the social sciences (e.g. Dumont 1966, Deshpande 2000).”
Culture and Public Action (2004, background): “…that it exemplifies Homo Hierarchicus— where a belief in the rightness of the caste hierarchy is deeply internalized by both upper and lower castes (Dumont 1970).26 In Dumont’s view, Hindu beliefs, perpetuated by Brahmin upper castes, attribute the station of a person’s birth to the stock of his…”
Mapping India’s regional subcultures: Implications for international management (2015, background): “Roland (1988) indicated that despite emphasis on social conformity and subordination of individual desires to family responsibilities (Dumont, 1980), Indians, much like Westerners, maintain an inner psychological space of personal”
Status, Caste, and the Time Allocation of Women in Rural India (2013, background): “And this concern appears to increase as we move up the caste hierarchy because of the preoccupation of the higher castes with ‗purity‘ [Dumont(1970)].”
INEQUALITY, REDISTRIBUTION, AND RENT-SEEKING (2004, unknown): “Other examples are in Baloyra and Martz (1979), Bauer (1975), and Dumont (1970).”
Does West “Fit” with East? In Search of a Chinese Model of Person–Environment Fit (2015, background): “Third, cultural anthropologists and comparative philosophers (e.g., Dumont, 1981; Jullien, 2011) have consistently asserted that in-depth explorations and understandings of alien cultures constitute an effective approach to understanding one’s own culture.”
Caste as an Impediment to Trade (2011, background): “Dumont (1970) later insisted that dominance arises solely from economic power rather than factors like numerical preponderance, and that this power flows exclusively from control of land.”