social class

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noun Sociology.

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

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How to use social class in a sentence

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.
Men Are Now More Likely to Be Single Than Women. It's Not a Good Sign|Belinda Luscombe|October 5, 2021|Time
Social scientists are used to interrogating structures in terms of critical dimensions of human difference—gender, race, social class, disability.
How to Build a Society for All to Enjoy - Issue 107: The Edge|Kathryn Paige Harden|September 29, 2021|Nautilus
The doctrine of social class as predestination has rarely been presented so succinctly.
Ian Rankin took on the challenge of finishing his mentor’s book. The result is a darkly beautiful novel.|Maureen Corrigan|September 22, 2021|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.
The Hard-Drinking Playboys Who Made Transatlantic Sailing History|Allison McNearney|June 6, 2021|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.
Knocking on the door of innovation in Chile|Alissa Greenberg|April 28, 2021|MIT Technology Review
What seems at first to be novel about gender inequity gradually reveals itself to be a parable about social class.
American Dreams, 1924: ‘So Big’ by Edna Ferber|Nathaniel Rich|March 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The theme of social class weaves through all of those pieces, but so do great doses of humor and irony.
Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012|Michael Tomasky|July 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Caddyshack, the one I directed, for me was about the exclusivity of country clubs and social-class conflict.
Harold Ramis Gets Down to Funny Business|Kim Masters|June 18, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The new social class, in which such men were the leaders, held corresponding principles.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.|Leslie Stephen
Horatio Bakkus, with his sacerdotal air and well-bred speech and manner, evidently belonged to our own social class.
The Mountebank|William J. Locke
With such a social class democracy is the only acceptable form of government.
Races and Immigrants in America|John R. Commons
Paul Kampffmeyer—Prostitution as a social class phenomenon and the social and political struggle against it.
Woman and Socialism|August Bebel
Just as an excessive impoverishment may kill out a whole social class, malthusianism is the death of the middle classes.
The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study|Jean-Marie Guyau