class structure

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“Making sense of the beer business can be like understanding American class structure: There are fewer people at the top than at the bottom,” he writes.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023

At the top of the Yuan class structure were Mongols, followed by non-Chinese people, who were Europeans or previous steppe inhabitants like the Jurchen, Tangut, and Khitan.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

I can do without a housemaid and the class structure she represents, but imagine living in a world where doctors made house calls!

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022

Today, whether or not they realize it, the wealthy tell the stories of their lives — and our class structure — within the framework that Alger articulated.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

The comparative economic equality in an area of free land had a democratizing influence on the social class structure.

From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.