social class

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social class
social rank, communal layer

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Social class
Social class (or simply "class"), as in a class society, is a set of concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the uppermiddle, and lower classes.

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social class

Noun
1. people having the same social or economic status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
(synonym) class, socio-economic class
(hypernym) people
(hyponym) world, domain
(member-holonym) class structure


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Social Class
the level of society to which an individual belongs; Australians, generally, perceive themselves as being members of either the upper-middle class, middle class or working class.

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Social Class
grouping the population according to occupation and income; shown as A. B. Cl .C2. D. E. or in simple terms; upper, middle and lower class.