class structure

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Critiques of British class structure and bad actors within the police department are raised high enough to be impossible to miss.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025

“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

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

She is a complex human being, but she is also part of a powerful class structure that has given her a lot of power and privilege — and that power means control.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2022

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

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi