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social class

Also known as socioeconomic class, social stratum

group of people categorized in a hierarchy based on socioeconomic factors

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Social class refers to groups of people ranked in a hierarchy based on factors like income, wealth, education, and occupation. It matters because a person's social class affects their access to resources, opportunities, and how they are treated in society.

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The association between social class and aggression: A meta-analytic review.ReviewSocial science & medicine (1982) · 2024Chen B, Zhang C, Feng F et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116432
The socioecology of social class.ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology · 2020Manstead AS, Easterbrook MJ, Kuppens TDOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.06.037
Social class and prosocial behavior: current evidence, caveats, and questions.ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology · 2017Piff PK, Robinson ARDOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.06.003
Gender, social class, and women's employment.ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology · 2017McGinn KL, Oh EDOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.012
Culture and social class.ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology · 2017Miyamoto YDOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.042
Leadership learning through the lens of social class.New directions for student leadership · 2021Ardoin S, Guthrie KLDOI: 10.1002/yd.20415
Social class, susceptibility and sickness.ReviewAmerican journal of epidemiology · 1976Syme SL, Berkman LFDOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112268
Social power and social class: conceptualization, consequences, and current challenges.ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology · 2017Rucker DD, Galinsky ADDOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.028

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A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common ones being: the working class, the middle class and the upper class. Membership of a social class is commonly considered dependent on education, wealth, occupation, income, and belonging to a particular subculture or social network.

Class is a subject of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and social historians. The term has a wide range of sometimes conflicting meanings, and there is no broad consensus on a definition of class. Some people argue that due to social mobility, class boundaries do not exist. In common parlance, the term social class is usually synonymous with socioeconomic class, defined as "people having the same social, economic, cultural, political or educational status", such as the working class, or "an emerging professional class". However, academics distinguish social class from socioeconomic status, using the former to refer to one's relatively stable cultural background and the latter to refer to one's current social and economic situation which is consequently more changeable over time.