class structure

Example Sentences

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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.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2023

That scholars can draw such a wide array of plausible conclusions speaks to the fact that the Indus valley likely had a very fluid class structure and a highly complex society.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

For his second Palme d’Or-winning satire, Ruben Ostlund follows up the art-world raspberry “The Square” with a savage, at-times stomach-turning comedy about the ultrawealthy that morphs into a wild upending of class structure.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 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

On the whole, society took on a class structure that was based upon power.

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi