The modern social structure of France is complex, but generally similar to that of other European countries. Traditional social classes still have some...

A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle...

Social class in the United States refers to the idea of grouping Americans by some measure of social status, typically by economic status. However, it...

The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, which continues to affect British society...

been marked distinctions of social class in Colombia, although twentieth-century economic development has increased social mobility to some extent. Distinctions...

Social security (French: sécurité sociale) is divided by the French government into five branches: illness; old age/retirement; family; work accident;...

Social classes in Italy are bourgeoisie, white-collar middle class, urban petite bourgeoisie, rural petite bourgeoisie, urban working class and rural...

person's social rank. The middle class, or bourgeoisie, traditionally occupies an intermediate position in the Nigerian class hierarchy. In the past two...

The word banlieue, which is French for "suburb", does not necessarily refer to an environment of social disenfranchisement. Indeed, there exist many wealthy...

stratification is defined in terms of three social classes: an upper class, a middle class, and a lower class; in turn, each class can be subdivided into...

in determining social class. In the colonial period, the French imposed a three-tiered social structure similar to the casta system in colonial Hispanic...

Social class in Luxembourg after 1945 is generally based on occupation, personal income, and spending power as well as rights to social welfare rather...

that formed the social class of the medieval bourgeoisie. Entry into burgher status varied from country to country and city to city. In Hungary proof of...

The French nobility (French: la noblesse française) was a privileged social class in France from the Middle Ages until its abolition on 23 June 1790 during...

The structure of social class in Cambodia (Khmer: វណ្ណៈសង្គម [ʋannaʔ sɑŋkum]) has altered several times throughout its history. The traditional hereditary...

Welfare in France (also known as social protection, from French: Protection sociale) includes all systems whose purpose is to protect people against the...

divisions: high, medium and low. Each in turn was divided into three classes, to give nine classes in all. Social status was a formal classification, mostly...

Social classes in Iran have been divided up into upper class, propertied middle class, salaried middle class, working class, independent farmers, and...

Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies. An individual's relative position in one might be higher...

Social class is an important theme for historians of the United States for decades. The subject touches on many other elements of American history such...

subculture), a related social group "Low Visibility". The New York Review of Books. February 21, 2019. "In France, a New Class Reinvents the Good Life :...

The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status. The...

set up to benefit the upper class at the expense of the lower class. Social class refers to the grouping of individuals in a hierarchy based on wealth...

A social issue is a problem that affects many people within a society. It is a group of common problems in present-day society and ones that many people...

BOOR-zhwah-ZEE, French: [buʁʒwazi] ) are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between...

Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society...

riche (French for 'new rich'; French: [nuvo ʁiʃ]), new rich or new money (in contrast to old money; French: vieux riche [vjø ʁiʃ]) is a social class of the...

mobility was difficult, or sometimes nearly impossible, to achieve as social class was primarily defined by an individual's identity. To rise required passing...

society. The movement can be in a downward or upward direction. Markers for social mobility such as education and class, are used to predict, discuss...

and class. Social inequality usually implies the lack of equality of outcome, but may alternatively be conceptualized as a lack of equality in access...