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They’re smart, capable women who are less concerned with dismantling established social orders than they are with keeping their home and family intact.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024

In turn, the social orders were starkly divided, not just by wealth but by law and custom as well.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Neither peasant nor aristocrat, he sprang from lower social orders but had a gift of moving up and down the social ladder astutely.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2016

Where once the world had seemed immutable, a system of rigid social orders and immemorial cultural practices overseen by eternal gods, it was now subject to the transformational effect of technology.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2016

This she says to workingmen as a reason why they should not antagonize the social orders above them, whose work is as important as their own.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis