social class

noun

, Sociology.

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

Example Sentences

Marriage does not make people change their social class, it doesn’t make people change their race, and those things are very big predictors of economic outcomes.

From Time

Social scientists are used to interrogating structures in terms of critical dimensions of human difference—gender, race, social class, disability.

From Nautilus

The doctrine of social class as predestination has rarely been presented so succinctly.

From Washington Post

In fact, during the war, Bennett had not only loaned the Henrietta to the Union army, but he had taken the step inconceivable to his social class of joining the navy himself and offering his services along with his boat.

From The Daily Beast

Growing up in Chile, where her family owned a minimarket, Rocio Fonseca, SM ’14, was taught to expect a life limited by her family’s social class.

From MIT Technology Review

What seems at first to be novel about gender inequity gradually reveals itself to be a parable about social class.

From The Daily Beast

The theme of social class weaves through all of those pieces, but so do great doses of humor and irony.

From The Daily Beast

Caddyshack, the one I directed, for me was about the exclusivity of country clubs and social-class conflict.

From The Daily Beast

The new social class, in which such men were the leaders, held corresponding principles.

From Project Gutenberg

Horatio Bakkus, with his sacerdotal air and well-bred speech and manner, evidently belonged to our own social class.

From Project Gutenberg

With such a social class democracy is the only acceptable form of government.

From Project Gutenberg

Paul Kampffmeyer—Prostitution as a social class phenomenon and the social and political struggle against it.

From Project Gutenberg

Just as an excessive impoverishment may kill out a whole social class, malthusianism is the death of the middle classes.

From Project Gutenberg