The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s4.9

c5.s4.9

According to Sorokin all the mechanisms—the "sieves"—by which individuals are socially "tested", "selected" and "distributed" among different social strata are to be found in the Indian social organization. We find that India does not present a peculiar case. The almost sacred character of the family was as much a dominant feature of India as of Greece, Rome and medieval Europe down to the fourteenth century. The marriages in those societies were regulated by "eugenic" practices. In India as elsewhere the family served as a powerful testing and selective agency (pp. 184-186).