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5 unusual facts about social class


Fraternization

Fraternization (from Latin frater, brother) is "turning people into brothers"—conducting social relations with people who are actually unrelated and/or of a different class (especially those with whom one works) as though they were siblings, family members, personal friends or lovers.

John Mercer-Henderson, 8th Earl of Buckinghamshire

He was a dedicated campaigner on juvenile issues and social justice for the lower classes.

Mark Barnsley

Supporters claim Barnsley was just trying to defend his friend and child from a group of drunken students, and that his conviction was a result of political and class prejudice.

Matt Winn

Winn called Regret's victory a turning point, and he worked to create an event of exotic grandeur that women soon flocked to, coming from both fashionable society and the ordinary working classes.

Terre Thaemlitz

Her work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-economics of commercial media production.


Ann Pancake

The sharply divided interests of urban and rural Americans and the powerful determinant of social class is manifest in Bait and "Redneck Boys" where the death toll of rural highways is both the cause of nonchalance and horror.

Faisceau

They included a "national" state (i.e. for the benefit of all social classes, rather than the existing "bourgeois" state or the Marxist proletarian state) with a strong, authoritarian leader.

Maya households

The ancient Maya society was similar to other societies in regard to their social classes.

Sexual field

Nevertheless, to the extent that race, class, gender, ethnicity, age and ability, among others, are organizing features of sexual status within a given sexual field, so the relationship of sexual fields to broader historical systems of stratification requires consideration (Green 2005, 2008, 2011. 2014).


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Cachirulo

However, the traditional Aragonese outfit is varied depending on both its geographical origin (Hecho, Ansó, Ribagorza, Gistaín, etc.) as well as its use and social class.

Dealignment

Partisan dealignment is the process whereby people no longer vote according to their social class (i.e. in the UK, working-class voters voting Conservative or Liberal Democrat instead of Labour).

Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews

Roy Greenslade, in the guardian.co.uk blog, explained it by stating that "Overarching everything is social class" but added that Matthews being taken hostage in the UK made a difference.

Natchez people

Related to this is the idea that the Honored category was not a social class but rather an honorific title given to commoner men and was not hereditary.

Poor white trash

White trash, an American English pejorative term referring to individual or groups of lower social class Caucasian people that the speaker considers to lack social status

Sans-culottes

The Marxist historian Albert Soboul emphasized the importance of the sans-culottes as a social class, a sort of proto-proletariat that played a central role in the French Revolution.

Social Practice

Through research, Sylvia Scribner sought to understand and create a decent life for all people regardless of geographical position, race, gender, and social class.

Villa del Cine

One of the most well known projects produced by Villa del Cine is the film La Clase (The Social Class).