565

Classes

Scope Note

Presence or absence of stratified groups between which mobility is to at least some extent possible; number and ranking of social classes; composition and distribution; basis of differentiation (e.g., wealth, occupation, ascribed status, conquest); class consciousness; degree of class organization; integration of cliques with classes; class prerogatives and disabilities; insignia and stigmata of classes; relations between classes; extent of intermarriage; status and affiliation of children of interclass marriages; special social classes (e.g., royalty, nobles, peasants and commoners, bourgeois and proletariat); etc.

Broader Term
560 Social Stratification
Related Terms
463 Occupational Specialization
511 Standard Of Living
550 Naming, Prestige And Status Mobility
573 Cliques
620 Community
630 Territorial Organization
640 Government Institutions
660 Political Behavior
669 Revolution
735 Poverty
Use Fors
Aristocracy (class)
Bourgeoisie
Class consciousness
Class privileges
Class uprisings (class)
Classes, social
Cliques (integration with class)
Commoners (social class)
Consciousness (class)
Egalitarian communities
Egalitarian social structure
Egalitarian societies
Heraldic shields (symbols of social class)
Heraldry (social classes)
Lower class
Marriage regulation (social classes)
Nobility (social class)
Nobility rites
Peasantry (social class)
Proletarianization
Proletariat (class)
Royalty (social class)
Social classes
Stratification (class)
Wealth in relation to social class
Identifier
565

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