Towards Excellence

(ISSN No. 0974-035X)
(An indexed refereed & peer-reviewed journal of higher education)
UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INDIAN CASTES AND GENDER WITH ETHNOCENTRISM AMONG ADULT STUDENTS IN AHMEDABAD CITY

Authors:

Kapil Kumar, Mohammad Khalid Khawrin, Kamayani Mathur

Abstract:

The lens of cultural conflict has many dimensions to examine diversity based on gender, caste, occupation, etc. It is highly needed to determine the appropriate system, which leads humans to further development and prosperity. There were both genders of male and female (42.8%, 57.2%) respectively. Furthermore, data was gathered with a sample using random sampling method from 2019-to 2021. There were 750 students with different castes such as Open/General category of caste (53.9%), Scheduled Tribe (9.5%), Scheduled Extremely Backward Caste (20.7%), Scheduled Caste (8.5%), Other Backward Caste (5.6%), and economically weaker section (1.9%) participants. This study evaluated the difference of variance of castes among one another and the mean score difference of gender was also evaluated. This study proved that there was not a significant difference among castes groups similarly the gender of the Ahmedabad city students’ also was not significantly different.

Keywords:

Castes, Ethnocentrism, Gender, Students, Ahmedabad

Vol & Issue:

VOL.14, ISSUE No.2, June 2022