class system
Ranked social structure
A class system is a social hierarchy that ranks people by wealth, occupation, education, or birth.
Unlike rigid caste systems, class systems theoretically allow movement between levels, though mobility often proves limited in practice.
The British class system still influences speech patterns and social expectations.
Most societies have some form of class system, whether acknowledged or not.
- casteInherited social division
- new moneySelf-earned, not inherited wealth
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- eliteSuperior select group
old boys club · proletariat · cultural capital · wealth inequality · peasantry · glass ceiling · social ladder · feudalism · income disparity · privilege · socioeconomic status · stratification · gentry · landed gentry · hierarchy · poverty · servants · hegemony
- Old Regimesabsolutism, divine right, imperial Russia, tsarist Russia, Qing dynasty
- gamingvideo games, buff, games, PlayStation 4, gameplay
- groupsteam, teams, group, club, clubs
- civilizationempires, empire, civilizations, dynasty, kingdoms
- classificationcategory, group, cataloging, grouping, kind
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
class systemmeritocracy
Advancement through demonstrated ability
open society · social mobility · merit-based system · classlessness · equal opportunity
class systemclassless society
System without social strata
egalitarianism · social equality · egalitarian society · communism · socialism
class systemkibbutz
Israeli communal farm
commune · classlessness · individualism · pure democracy · anarchism
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