social class

American  

noun

Sociology.

1. a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status.

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Example Sentences

Nevertheless, this man, grown out of Flea Bottom’s gutters, appropriates the tradition by holding his vows as a representation of lived reality, rather than as a mere ritual or badge of social class.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

Not that Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s doomed-by-their-own-hands love affair ever needed the exposure; Brontë’s themes of obsession, revenge, social class and the supernatural are still analyzed in high school English classes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

He grew up seeing work as a way to catapult himself into a new social class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

One of them is that the British “Traitors” surfaces social class as its dominant subtext, whereas Cumming’s game shows American snobbery manifesting in fame, not skill, being a major determinant of worth and worthiness.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

For people of European ancestry, social class divisions were certainly more fluid in the United States than they had been in Europe, but the United States was never an entirely classless society.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz