aristocratic society
Blue-blooded social class
An aristocratic society is one where power, wealth, and status concentrate in a hereditary upper class distinguished by noble titles, land ownership, and privileged access to government.
The term often carries connotations of rigid hierarchy and limited social mobility: Pre-revolutionary France was an aristocratic society where peasants had few rights.
It may also describe any community dominated by elite families or old money.
- landownershipHolding title to property
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- noble housesElite families with titles
- courtly mannersFormal aristocratic etiquette
- chivalryKnightly code of honor
feudal lords · monarchy · gentry · upper crust · oligarchy · inheritance laws · family crest · hereditary rule · old money · estates · blue blood · lineage · caste system · patricians · dowries · noblesse oblige · Victorian England · serfdom
aristocratic societymeritocracy
Advancement through demonstrated ability
merit-based system · technocracy · open society · professional society · American Dream
aristocratic societyegalitarian society
Group with equal status
classless society · democratic society · democracy · popular democracy · republic
aristocratic societyopen society
Society permitting free inquiry
classless society · egalitarian society · American Dream · bourgeois society · capitalist society
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