Saris and contemporary Indian womanhood: how middle-class women navigate the tradition/modernity split

Mount, Liz

doi:10.1080/09584935.2017.1321617

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“…Our behavior manipulation was in line with emerging evidence, where we described actions that were either appropriate or unacceptable in lower SES contexts (Butalia, 2013;Piff et al, 2010;Van Kleef et al, 2011). Our social class manipulation in the form of clothing was adapted from the study by Kraus and Mendes (2014) and consistent with theorizing about social class and clothing in India (Bhatia, 2018;Budhwar & Varma, 2011;Dahlberg, 1996;Gelles, 2011;Kalpagam, 2008;Mount, 2017;Sandhu, 2015;Singh, 2016). We fully crossed repeated-measures stimuli, describing target behavior and target social class, and randomized presentation order (materials in Supplement B).…”

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confidence: 66%

Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample

Khatry

Manokara

Harris

2020

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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A perceiver’s socioeconomic status (SES) should influence social perceptions toward others. However, there is little evidence for this effect within and beyond Western samples. We hence evaluate the relationship between perceiver SES and dehumanized perception in a society where status is historically defined: India. Across two studies, we hypothesized that perceiver SES would predict dehumanization toward societal outcasts—beggars—and norm violators. Replicating previous work, in Study 1, upper SES perceivers dehumanized beggars more than lower SES perceivers; accounted for by low self-reported contact likelihood. In Study 2, norm violators were perceived as less human but more so by lower rather than upper SES perceivers. This novel finding was partially explained by perceivers viewing female violators as less prototypical, aligned with theorizing in gender research. Our results indicate that SES influences dehumanization via contact likelihood as well as the perceived normativity of a targets’ behavior.

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confidence: 66%

Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample

Khatry

Manokara

Harris

2020

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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“…As Gilbertson writes, the performance of middle‐class respectability places demands upon women to adopt a particularly careful balance between ‘respectable but not backward, conservative or orthodox; open‐minded and “in touch” with global trends, but not too “fast” or overly “Westernized”’ (2014, p. 124). As such, clothing choices – as semiotic markers – become key sites of performance and (dis)alignment towards shifting concepts of modernity and tradition, and thus require ‘constant self‐regulation and monitoring’ (ibid, p. 155) from women in order to ‘position their practices as simultaneously conforming to the polarized categories of traditional and modern’ (Mount, 2017, p. 168). English, as we have seen, becomes the terrain through which they must navigate these competing forces of middle‐class aspirations and traditional (caste‐ and class‐based) gender expectations.…”

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“She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India

Highet¹

2022

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Through its colonial, class-and caste-based history, English in India has come to be seen as a powerful resource that opens doors for those who 'have' it and holds back those who do not. For women, English ostensibly offers various promises in addition to employment: progressiveness and 'empowerment'; and the potential for upward mobility through marriage. Yet, the conversion of English capital for English-speaking Indian women proves to be intensely complex in practice, as many find themselves forced to navigate between shifting moral regimes attached to 'tradition' and 'modernity'. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in an NGO in Delhi that offers free English training to 'disadvantaged youth', this paper explores how English capital is managed by young women striving to attain middle classness through English, and how their class, caste and gender positionings are negotiated across particular time-space configurations as they seek to become English speakers.

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“…This phenomenon has also been found in other cultures. For example, Mount (2017) found that middle-class Indian women were pressured to conform to the facets of traditional womanhood while also aligning themselves with modernity.…”

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Attitudes of Chinese College Students Toward Aging and Living Independently in the Context of China’s Modernization: A Qualitative Study

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Modernization in China is accompanied by some specific features: aging, individualization, the emergence of the nuclear family, and changing filial piety. While young Chinese people are still the main caregivers for older adults, understanding the attitudes of young Chinese people toward aging and living independently in the context of modernization is important because it relates to future elderly care problems in China. By using in-depth interviews and qualitative methods, 45 participants were enrolled in the study, 38 (84.44%) were women and 37 (82.22%) had no siblings. The ages ranged from 17 to 25 years (mean age = 19.28, SD = 1.74). Results revealed that participants held diverse attitudes about older adults, but the general attitudes were that older adults are lonely, financially disadvantaged, have poor social support, lack hobbies, and care about their children more than themselves. Chinese college students were affected both by traditional filial piety and individualism; however, of the two, they seemed put greater value on independence. Moreover, traditional filial piety is changing in a modern direction, affected by Western ideas of individualism: the status of the senior is diminishing, and living with one’s parents is no longer regarded as a necessary component. Implications concerning age stereotypes, elderly care policies, and strategies are discussed.

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Saris and contemporary Indian womanhood: how middle-class women navigate the tradition/modernity split

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample

Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample

“She will control my son”: Navigating womanhood, English and social mobility in India

Attitudes of Chinese College Students Toward Aging and Living Independently in the Context of China’s Modernization: A Qualitative Study

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