class structure

Cultural  

1. The hierarchical organization by which a society or community is divided into class es. The vast majority of the population of the United States considers itself as belonging to the middle class. In Marxism, class structure is organized into the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (see also proletariat).

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Example Sentences

Critiques of British class structure and bad actors within the police department are raised high enough to be impossible to miss.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025

Making sense of the beer business can be like understanding American class structure: There are fewer people at the top than at the bottom.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023

For his second Palme d’Or-winning satire, Ruben Ostlund follows up the art-world raspberry “The Square” with a savage, at-times stomach-turning comedy about the ultrawealthy that morphs into a wild upending of class structure.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023

She is a complex human being, but she is also part of a powerful class structure that has given her a lot of power and privilege — and that power means control.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2022

On the whole, society took on a class structure that was based upon power.

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi

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