class structure

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

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In its place is a codified class structure ruled by its white characters, who strongly encourage the locals to vote for approved candidates in the upcoming election in order to maintain the status quo.

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Paramount’s dual class structure also complicates any deal scenario that would involve investors who own publicly traded shares.

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A place, Americans like to believe, where everyone can create their own opportunities in a society free of the class structures that still exist in Britain.

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“It’s about fundamental equality. And when you have a monopolist like that, it’s just so representative of the class structure of a society where there isn’t equality anymore, there isn’t fairness.”

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