Ascribed Status: Social status is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life. It is a position that is neither earned nor chosen but assigned.These rigid social designators often remain fixed throughout an individual's life and are perceived by many as inseparable from positive or negative stereotypes that entail.
Background: The type of family, social position, or culture that someone comes from.
Beginnings: Someone’s background, for example the social class that they originally came from, or their first job.
Beneath: If a particular action or activity is beneath you, you think that you are of a higher social class than people who do this.
Birth: Your status or position in society according to your family or the place where you were born.
Bourgeois: Belonging to the class of people who are educated and own property, according to Marxist ideas.
The Bourgeoisie: The class of people who are educated and own property, according to Marxist ideas: can be followed by a singular or plural verb.
Class: One of the groups into which people in a society are divided according to their family background, education, job, or income.
Class-Conscious: Influenced by a strong feeling of belonging to a particular social class and noticing differences between the classes.
Classism: Unfair treatment of people because of their social class.
Classless: Not divided into social classes.
Classless: Not belonging to a particular social class.
Class Struggle: According to Marxism, a situation in which rich and powerful people and working-class people compete for political and economic power.
Egalitarian: Supporting a social system in which everyone has equal status and the same money and opportunities.
Genteel: Lived in by rich polite people and not very lively, exciting, or modern.
Hierarchical: A hierarchical society or organization is one in which differences in status are considered to be very important.
Hierarchy: A system for organizing people according to their status in a society, organization, or other group.
Inverted Snobbery: The idea that everything typical of the higher social classes is bad and everything typical of the working class is good.
Meritocracy: A system or society in which people have influence or status according to their abilities and achievements rather than because of the social class to which they belong.
Noblesse Oblige: The idea that rich people from a high social class should help peoplewho have fewer advantages.
Non-U: Not typical of the upper class.
Populist: Representing the interests and opinions of ordinary people.
Snob: Someone who thinks they are better than other people, usually because of their social class. This word shows that you do not like people like this.
Socially: Relating to someone’s social class.
Society: Relating to the parties, weddings, performances etc that rich and fashionablepeople go to.
Stratification: The division of a society into different groups.
Stratified: Divided into groups in society based on status.
Trickle-down: Relating to the belief that people at the lowest level of society or an organization always benefit from the money or advantages that people at the highest level have.
Class-Consciousness: Awareness of one's place in a system of social class, especially (in Marxist terms) as it relates to the class struggle.
Elitist: Relating to or supporting the view that a society or system should be led by an elite.
Meritocracy: A political philosophy holding that power should be vested in individuals almost exclusively based on ability and talent.
Above your Station: Higher than is suitable for your position or rank.
The Common Touch: The ability of someone important or powerful to talk to ordinary people and to understand what they are thinking or the existence of differences that cause people to be divided into different social groups.
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