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Social classes are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. Class is an essential object of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, economists, anthropologists and social historians. In the social sciences, social class is often discussed in terms of 'social stratification'. In the modern Western context, stratification typically comprises three layers: upper class, middle class, and lower class. Each class may be further subdivided into smaller classes (e.g. occupational).
General[edit]
- What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883 by William Graham Sumner
- The National Question and the Class Struggle, 1903 by Ber Borochov, translated by Poale Zion
- War of the Classes, 1905 by Jack London
- The Class War, 1907 by Max Beer
- Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society, 1926) by Mao Zedong, translated by Foreign Language Press
- Oppose Book Worship, 1930 by Mao Zedong, translated by Foreign Language Press
- Dialectical Materialism, 1938 by Mao Zedong, translated by Foreign Languages Press
- The Empire of the Ignorant by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Castes and Tribes of Southern India (1909) by Edgar Thurston (transcription project)
Upper class[edit]
- Aristocracy from English Traits, 1856 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Science, Education, and Aristocracy, as it appeared in the February 1874 Popular Science Monthly
- The Lie of a Monarchy and Aristocracy from Conventional Lies of our Civilization, 1883 by Max Simon Nordau
Middle class[edit]
- The Middle Classes, 1854 by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- House Democrats approve tax relief for middle-class Hawaii taxpayers, November 9, 2007 by the office of Representative Abercrombie
- Green jobs are a way to aid the middle class, February 27, 2009 by Joe Biden
- Remarks at the First Meeting of the Middle Class Task Force, Panel One, February 27, 2009 by Joe Biden
- Middle Class Task Force Staff Report - Green Jobs: A Pathway to a Strong Middle Class, February 27, 2009 by Joe Biden
- Middle Class Working Families Task Force, January 30, 2009 by Barack Obama
- Middle Class Working Families Task Force, January 30, 2009 by Joe Biden
- Time to put middle class front and center, January 30, 2009 by Joe Biden
- Economic Recovery and Middle-Class Tax Relief Act of 2009 by the United States Congress
- The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière, translated by Philip Dwight Jones
Working class[edit]
- The working classes and the corn laws, 1842 by Richard Cobden
- On the Successes of The International in Germany and France, July 25, 1868 from The Bee-Hive
- The Progress of the Working-Classes in the Last Half-Century, as it appeared in the May 1884 Popular Science Monthly
- Political Appeal to American Workers, 1912 by Eugene V. Debs
- The Rise of the Lower Classes from Economic Development in Denmark Before and During the World War, 1922 by Harald Westergaard