class, social

class, social
A grouping separating a society into subsets defined in terms of status, privilege, place in the processes of economic production, access to power and authority, and sometimes an individual's self-definition in such terms. In a complex society various measures of class may come apart: for example, the traditional upper class may be relatively impoverished.

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