Social origin includes social class, socio-occupational category and caste. Social origin may not be used to deny certain groups of people access to various categories of jobs or limit them to certain types of activities.[1]
Social origin includes factors other than country of birth. It refers to elements that a person adopts from the surrounding culture. These include, but are not limited to, language or mother tongue/s, life cycle customs such as initiation into a religious community, affirmation of adulthood, and such things as diverse as dress and diet.
What determines social origin is not merely self-defined, but also depends upon the way in which a person is recognised by the dominant or majority group in the community in which that person socialises, lives or works. Consequently a person may have one social origin in one circumstance and a different one in another.[2]