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Revision as of 01:21, 13 September 2002 by The Anome (talk | contribs) (Particular social class groups:)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A social class is a group of people that have similar social and economical status.
At various times division of society into classes had various level of support from law. On one opposite of this were old Indian classes - castes, which one could neither enter after birth, nor leave. On the other are classes in modern Western societies, which are very fluid and have little support from law.
Marxists explain history in terms of a war of classes between a rich, privileged class which possessed the Means of production (bourgeoisie), and a poor, unprivileged class (proletariat), which actually produced, while the fruits of the work were being mostly taken by members of the privileged class.
See also:
Particular social class groups:
- the Burakumin of Japan
- the untouchables of India
For other meaning of word class, see Class.