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Class, Social

By: Robert Penney
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:class societies; class struggle; means of production; political class; producers; upper class; working class

The term social class generally refers to a group of people who share the same socioeconomic status or who have common economic, cultural, and social characteristics. The term is popularly used to divide people into categories such as upper, lower, or ...

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  Penney, R. (2003). Class, social. In K. Christensen, & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 189-192). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n77
  
  Penney, Robert. "Class, Social." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 189-92. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n77.
  
  Penney, R. 2003. Class, Social. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 189-192 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n77> [Accessed 13 Apr 2021].
  
  Penney, Robert. "Class, Social." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 189-92. SAGE Knowledge. 13 Apr 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n77.
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