Definitions

class consciousness

NOUN

class distinction

Synonyms

WEAK

class difference class hatred class identity class politics class prejudice class struggle class war discrimination snobbery

Example Sentences

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We know nothing about the other gladiators, or how they got to the point where a boring speech was enough to suddenly awaken their class consciousness, but at least we know how Hanno got here.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024

Generally, Marxism relied on the proletariat, the industrial workers in the factories, gaining class consciousness.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The ideas about class consciousness aren’t anything that a college freshman isn’t already well-versed in.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2022

The extreme class consciousness of characters in Proust or, for that matter, in Evelyn Waugh and Louis Auchincloss also tells us a great deal about the inner lives deformed by rigidly hierarchical societies.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

There is an honest absence of class consciousness, and a na�ve belief that the kind of occupation quite largely determines social position.

From Democracy and Social Ethics by Addams, Jane