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.

Identifier

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