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M N Srinivas - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Structural functional approach
        
        2nd PhD – Oxford University
        Influenced by A R Brown ,
        Structural functionalism – don’t take truth for granted ,
        Truth happens in social context,
        Empirical observation
        Liberate Sociology from book view
        Social structure of caste, village, family and society
      - Diffusion approach –
        
        G S Ghurye encouraged Srinivas to study ritual patterns of Coorgs
        Srinivas – felt it was not intellectually illuminating
- - - - Book view – Varna System
      - Empirical view – sub divisions within caste
      - Notices 20-25 caste groups in villages
      - Within each caste – sub caste, sub-sub caste
      - Cooperation, competition, conflicts
    - - Vishwakarma and Valmiki Brahmins of Karnataka
      - New caste groups born out of decline of old caste groups
    - - Varna view (forwarded by colonial rulers)
      - Brahminical model (forwarded by Louis Dumont)
    - - From ritual perspective
      - From secular perspective