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SOCIAL MOBILITY, ECONOMICS AND HUMAN AGENCY: A Study of Shahid-e-Råna
- Author(s):
- Muhammad Naeem (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- Cultural Studies, Literary theory
- Subject(s):
- Social history, Nineteenth century, Urdu literature, Fiction
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Urdu, Sorokin, social space, Symbolic space, symbolic capital, 19th-century social history, Novels
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/1gx7-n172
- Abstract:
- To determine the social status of a person, Sorokin coined the idea of Social space. This theme is useful in analyzing the relative position of a person in one's group and one's horizontal or vertical movement within and to other groups. Novel is a symbolic space, which makes possible for writers to construct the relative social status of characters. The position given to a character and her/his mobility may be studied in the light of Sorokin's ideas. It helps us in understanding the role of economy in achieving the agency implied by the social mobility.
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- Published as:
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- Publisher:
- Oriental College, University of the Punjab, Lahore
- Pub. Date:
- 30 June 2015
- Journal:
- Oriental College Magazine
- Volume:
- 90
- Issue:
- 2
- Page Range:
- 159 - 166
- ISSN:
- 1991-7007
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 1 year ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial