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Definition of Socio-economic class
1. Noun. People having the same social, economic, or educational status. "An emerging professional class"
Generic synonyms: People
Specialized synonyms: Domain, World, Age Class, Agriculture, Brotherhood, Fraternity, Sodality, Estate, Estate Of The Realm, The Three Estates, Labor, Labour, Proletariat, Working Class, Lower Class, Underclass, Bourgeoisie, Middle Class, Booboisie, Commonality, Commonalty, Commons, Peasantry, Demimonde, Underworld, Yeomanry, Caste, Caste, Upper Class, Upper Crust, Ninja, Firing Line, Immigrant Class, Center, Old School, Market, Craft, Trade, Fair Sex, Woman, Womanhood
Group relationships: Society
Group relationships: Class Structure
Derivative terms: Classify, Classify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socio-economic Class
Literary usage of Socio-economic class
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women in Rice Farming: Proceedings of a Conference on Women in Rice Farming by International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"in India.1 However, the focus of the bulk of this literature is on inter-household
differences (by socio- economic class) in the impact of the new ..."
2. Chile by Centre for Co-operation with Non-members (2004)
"... and the non-religious private subsidised "for profit" schools more likely to
cater to lower middle class and lower socio-economic class students. ..."
3. Chasing Credentials and Mobility: Private Higher Education in South Africa by Glenda Kruss (2004)
"... socio-economic class origin is difficult to ascertain, and the item on the
student survey intended for this purpose was invalidated in too many cases to ..."
4. Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Ratna M. Sudarshan (2003)
"This higher psychiatric morbidity is found to be consistent across urban/rural
backgrounds, religious and caste affiliations and socio-economic class. ..."
5. Basic Concepts in the Methodology of the Social Sciences by Johann Mouton, H. C. Marais (1988)
"Examples of variables that are commonly used in investigations include: gender,
income, socio-economic class, productivity, unemployment, education, ..."
6. Reflections on School Integration: Colloquium Proceedingsby Mokubung O. Nkomo, Carolyn McKinney, Linda Chisholm by Mokubung O. Nkomo, Carolyn McKinney, Linda Chisholm (2005)
"... race and racialism, and that is the increasing significance of socio- economic
class. While listening to their presentation I almost experienced a ..."
7. Deracialisation and Migration of Learners in South African Schools by Patience Sekete, Mmamajoro Shilubane, Badiri Moila (2001)
"... one has also to consider numerous socio-economic variables that question
representivity, for example ethnicity, religion, socio-economic class, etc. ..."
8. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"... state terrorism will be most intense where there are high levels of exploitation
as well as overlap between socio-economic class and ascrip- tive ethnic ..."
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