a category of people who have generally similar educational histories, job opportunities, and social standing and who are conscious of their membership in a social group that is ranked in relation to others and is replicated over generations.
a collection of people with similar position; social class is usually measured by education, occupation, and income
A person's social class reflects wealth, income, education, status and power. A person's occupation is generally used to indicate social class.
people having the same social or economic status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
a cluster of households whose members owe their life chances principally to their property ownership or employment relations
a group of people that have similar social and economic status
a group of people with similar levels of prestige, power, and wealth who also share a set of related beliefs, attitudes, and values in their thinking and behavior
A status hierarchy by which groups and individuals are classified on the basis of esteem and prestige.
The hierarchical order of a society based on such indicators of social rank (i.e. education, family, income, occupation, ownership of property, religious and political relationships etc.).
Most commonly measured using the Registrar-General's Occupation-based Classification System. This groups people from Classes I to V according to their occupation, eg lawyers and doctors are in Class I, and unskilled manual workers and labourers in Class V.
An informal ranking of people in a culture based on their income, occupation, education, dwelling, and other factors.
From 2002 entry, Socio-economic classifications replaced Social class in UCAS data. UCAS assigned Social class based on an applicant's parental occupation (or the occupation of the person contributing the highest income to the household if the applicant is aged 21 years or over). Provision of this information was voluntary, and not passed to institutions until after the selection process. Social class data are only available for home (UK domiciled) applicants.
An open group of individuals who have similar social rank (124)
Classification of social status, usually based on the occupation of the head of household and most commonly summarised as grades AB, C1, C2 and DE
Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. Anthropologists, historians and sociologists identify class as universal, although what determines class will vary widely from one society to another. Even within a society, different people or groups may have very different ideas about what makes one "high" or "low" in the hierarchy.
