class division
Rich versus poor
Class division is the separation of people into social strata based on wealth, occupation, education, or inherited status.
The term appears in discussions of inequality and social mobility: Class divisions have widened as the middle class shrinks.
It can describe both the abstract structure of a society and the lived experience of barriers between groups: She felt the class division keenly at her prep school.
- income inequalityDisparity in earnings distribution
- wage gapDisparity in earnings
- caste systemHereditary class division
- eliteSuperior select group
- old moneyLong-established family fortune
new money · aristocracy · proletariat · wealth · disenfranchisement · bourgeoisie · feudalism · cultural capital · social ladder · socialism · capitalism · poverty · economic mobility · landed gentry · silver spoon · social stratification · oligarchy · voter suppression
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- social classstratum, bourgeoisie, proletariat, elite, ranks
- class struggleproletariat, bourgeoisie, proletarian, Marxism, capitalist
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- divisiondivide, divided, dividing, split, splitting
- segregationresidential segregation, redlining, ghetto, ghettos, steering
class divisionclassless society
System without social strata
social equality · classlessness · egalitarianism · economic equality · meritocracy
class divisionsocial unity
Collective bond among people
social cohesion · national unity · social integration · brotherhood · social harmony
class, division, classified, classify, classes, classification, classifying, working-class, unclassified