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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2024

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

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

Was the class structure open or closed, mobile or fixed?

From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.

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