In the year 2022 and beyond, global society
will have to reckon with another perception about the "social class"
order that will re-identify the mid-21st century's "social
class" with another perception: depending
on who is most affected by an altered social class will determine whether wars
are fought and for whom.
Wikipedia.org
defines the words "social class" as, "…A grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most
common being the upper, middle and lower classes. Membership in a social class can for example
be dependent on education, wealth, occupation, income, and belonging to a
particular subculture or social network.
And the new global
perception of the 2 words "social class" are further defined among the definitions offered by Google's link to Oxford Languages
definitions: "…the system
of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived
social or economic status..."
This same
Google link Oxford Languages definition offers another even more defining definition: "…people who are socially
disenfranchised by class".
Encyclopedia.com"
reference illustrates how the words "social class" affects the global
community, i.e. "… CLASS, STATUS, AND ORDER. All human societies require systems of
classification..."
According to Encyclopedia.com, "…These systems straddle the imagined boundary
between the ideal and the real, creating a standard by which society can
assess, judge, and, if necessary, punish…"
This same Encyclopedia.com has further
insights about "social class.
"…Early modern Europeans inherited from
their medieval ancestors a system of classification called the society of
orders, yet they lived in a world increasingly structured by economic status,
which modern societies have termed a society of classes. Historians long
accepted three simple propositions about European social classification: The Middle Ages had a society of orders; the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries had a society of classes; and early modern times had
neither, forming a sort of battlefield in which "classes" overcame
"orders…"
