4.1.4.1 Social class

Use this domain for words related to social class.

OMC Codes: 
560 Social Stratification
561 Age Stratification
562 Gender Status
Sex Status
563 Ethnic Stratification
564 Castes
565 Classes
566 Serfdom and Peonage
567 Slavery
  • What words refer to social class?
    class, caste, background, status, social standing, strata
  • What words refer to a person belonging to a higher class?
    upper class, aristocracy, privileged, elite, titled, posh, your betters, rich,
  • What words refer to a person belonging to the middle class?
    middle-class, bourgeois, the bourgeoisie, white-collar
  • What words refer to a person belonging to a lower class?
    working class, lower class, the masses, blue-collar, humble, popular, underclass, your inferiors, poor,
  • What words refer to a person belonging to the same class as you?
    peer
  • What words refer to moving into a higher social class?
    move up in the world, upwardly mobile, social climber
  • What words describe a society that is not divided into classes?
    classless