Categories: Demographics of the United Kingdom | Social classes Social stratification is a sociological term for the hierarchical arrangement of social classes, castes, and strata within a society. ... Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions between individuals or groups in societies or cultures. ... bourgeoisie is basically a trem that meens middle class. ... Upper class refers to a group of people at the top of a social hierarchy. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... The Lords and Barons prove their Nobility by hanging their Banners and exposing their Coats-of-arms at the door of the Lodge of the Heralds. ... White-collar workers perform tasks which are less physically laborious yet often more highly paid than blue-collar workers, who do manual work. ... Petit-bourgeois or Anglicised petty bourgeois is a French term that originally referred to the members of the lower middle social-classes in the 18th and early 19th centuries. ... This graph shows the American definition of social class according to the New York Times using the quintiles as measurement for class. ... A social class is, at its most basic, a group of people that have similar social status. ... Gentry is a term meaning one thing in the UK: landed gentry. ... A blue-collar worker performs manual, unskilled or halfskilled jobs, such as in a factory or maintenance trades in contrast to a white-collar worker, who does non-manual work generally at a desk. ... The proletariat (from Latin proles, offspring) is a term used to identify a lower social class; a member of such a class is proletarian. ... The middle class (or middle classes) comprises a social group once defined by exception as an intermediate social class between the nobility and the peasantry. ... A social class is, at its most basic, a group of people that have similar social status. ... Nouveau riche (Fr. ... A pink-collar worker works in a relatively clean, safe environment, in a job that is considered traditionally female (these traditions generally harking back to the first half of the 20th century). ... The lumpenproletariat (German Lumpenproletariat, rabble-proletariat; raggedy proletariat) is a term originally defined by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The German Ideology (1845), their famous second joint work, and later expounded upon in future works by Marx. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The term ruling class refers to the social class of a given society that decides upon and sets that societys political policy. ... Old money refers in the United Kingdom to the pre-decimal currency of pounds, shillings (or bob) and pence. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ...