The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s4.3

c5.s4.3

In the factual sociography of the world Sorokin does not consider India to be *sui generis*. "Interoccupational stratification" is considered by him to be a social fact of the past and the present. While describing the super-imposition of the caste-occupational groups in the Hindu system he points out that three of the eight guilds established by Numa or Servius Tullius in ancient Rome were more important from the social standpoint than the others. Among the guilds of medieval Europe there were some which were more “privileged” than the rest. The “six corps” of France and the *guilda mercantoria* of England are instances in point. Among the occupational groups of the contemporary societies also he finds “if not a juridical, at least a factual stratification” (pp. 99-100, 128).