Definition of Class-conscious

1. Adjective. (used of society) socially hierarchical. "American society is becoming increasingly stratified"

Exact synonyms: Stratified
Similar to: Hierarchal, Hierarchic, Hierarchical

Definition of Class-conscious

1. Adjective. (context: of a person) Aware of the socioeconomic class of oneself and others. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of a community) Stratified into such classes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Class-conscious

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Literary usage of Class-conscious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"Men who have become thoroughly class conscious naturally look with disfavor upon any exhibition of territorial group consciousness. ..."

2. The Rural Church Serving the Community by Edwin Lee Earp (1918)
"RUBAL FOLK BECOMING CLASS CONSCIOUS Rural folk are also becoming in a very definite sense class conscious, as we have recently learned from the milk strike ..."

3. The International Socialist Review by Algie Martin Simons (1907)
"class-conscious! as a matter of fact there is no other organization of labor in the entire world that is a class organization or is so class-conscious as ..."

4. The Labor Movement: Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences by Frank Tannenbaum (1921)
"Hundreds and thousands of workers are class-conscious without ever having heard ... They are class-conscious because their struggles for existence and their ..."

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