How to Use social class in a Sentence

social class

noun

• The conflict between the young and the old is explored in the context of social class.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• In short, the odds weren’t in the favor of this group of young men, who all came from a lower social class.
  — Maëlle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• In the past few years, members of nearly every social class have taken to the streets all over the country to protest against the regime.
  — Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2021
• This ubiquitous food unites all social classes and all age groups at a bakery counter.
  — Rafael Tonon, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2023
• The students tolled a gamut of death announcements that could specify gender and social class.
  — Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024
• By contrast, Lind—a prolific writer and a co-founder of the think tank New America—finds his answers in a single factor: social class.
  — Amy Chua, Foreign Affairs, 1 June 2020
• For Marxism, social classes are the agents and capitalism and class struggle are the central mechanisms of change.
  — Helen V. Milner, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2018
• Globally, the degree of risk from deadly air correlates with a person's income and social class.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• His manner leans toward the snobby, giving more play to the social comedy that arises from the English obsession with social class.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
• Hotels across the range The hotels recognized also spanned across economic and social classes, including a working ranch in Wyoming and a hot springs spa in Arizona.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 5 July 2024
• The author's books, set in her native Ireland, explore themes such as social class, power dynamics and other aspects of adulthood.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
• Carhartt is one of those unicorn brands that somehow transcends generations, social classes, and fashion trends.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024
• In Nairobi, many of this social class, especially those in their 20s and 30s, are easily identifiable.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 23 May 2024
• Her novels, which touch upon topics like friendship, romance and social class, have been translated into over 40 languages.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
• Clubs like the New York Athletic Club, founded in 1866, offered athletic competition among a social class that shared values, customs, and lifestyles.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2024
• Inside their domed chambers, men and women, regardless of social class, commune together and unwind.
  — Sam Metz, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
• Eventually, the modern steakhouse was born in Gotham, with higher-quality cuts than a chophouse and diners of the same elevated social class as the Beefsteak attendees.
  — Chris Dwyer, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2024
• In The New York Times’s 10th year of publishing teenagers’ college application essays about money, work, social class and other related topics, all four writers grappled with these questions in their own ways.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• What tattoos were apparently often used for in ancient Mesopotamia was marking enslaved people (and, in Egypt, as decorations for women of all social classes).
  — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2023
• Reports of the Potsdam meeting prompted the biggest demonstrations against the far-right in Germany since the early 1990s, bringing together citizens from across generations and social classes.
  — Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
• What was once an exceptional circumstance involving 4% of births is now a more usual one, yet colleges have done little to assist those damaged by the new dispensation, who are not members of a fashionable social class.
  — George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024
• The novel takes place at weddings, funerals and graduations and explores rifts that occur inside families and between social classes.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2024
• The woman who successfully set up a business empire, collecting wealth and property by captivating men from across social classes, began life enslaved, with not even freedom to her name.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Paige sees one possible future synthesis: an indigenous democratic socialism in which ethnicity and culture play as central a role as social class.
  — Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
• This has created entire social classes invested in conflict and has made armed mobilization a practical and accepted means of conducting politics.
  — Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022
• In his other novels, characters are generally conceived as representatives of a social class or political type.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• More accessible and affordable medical care can improve people's quality of life and decrease inequality across social classes.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 5 Apr. 2024
• Yet, important differences exist across social classes.
  — Michèle Lamont, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
• Still, the app plays into a polarization that’s become increasingly common in America over the last half-century, in which people increasingly marry those of their own social class, educational background, and even political party.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
• While Marxism focuses on social classes, Bahr believes addressing the climate crisis is focused on protecting all people by providing clean air, clean water and environmental protections.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024