class structure

1. The hierarchical organization by which a society or community is divided into class es. The vast majority of the population of the United States considers itself as belonging to the middle class . In Marxism , class structure is organized into the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (see also proletariat ).

Example Sentences

Paramount’s dual class structure also complicates any deal scenario that would involve investors who own publicly traded shares.

From Los Angeles Times

For it may be true that the rom-com’s evolution, in the aggregate, reflects real issues, and revolutionary changes, in class structure, sexual mores, gender norms, even constitutional law.

From Los Angeles Times

A place, Americans like to believe, where everyone can create their own opportunities in a society free of the class structures that still exist in Britain.

From BBC

“It’s about fundamental equality. And when you have a monopolist like that, it’s just so representative of the class structure of a society where there isn’t equality anymore, there isn’t fairness.”

From Seattle Times

Ambjörn retooled the premise, choosing to tell a queer coming-of-age story that is also an examination of the social class structure and enduring institutional power of the monarchy in Sweden.

From Los Angeles Times

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