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  2. Social class in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, which continues to affect British society today. [1] [2] British society, like its European neighbours and most societies in world history, was traditionally (before the Industrial Revolution) divided hierarchically within a system that involved the hereditary transmission of ...

  3. Ton (society) - Wikipedia

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    A variant of the French bon-ton, a now-archaic expression designating good style or breeding, polite, fashionable or high society, [2] or the fashionable world, ton's first recorded use in English was according to the Oxford English Dictionary in 1769. In British English, the word is pronounced as in French /tɒ̃/, with American English ...

  4. Social class - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of social classes reflect a number of sociological perspectives, informed by anthropology, economics, psychology and sociology. The major perspectives historically have been Marxism and structural functionalism. The common stratum model of class divides society into a simple hierarchy of working class, middle class and upper class.

  5. English society - Wikipedia

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    English Society in the Eighteenth Century (2nd ed. 1991) excerpt; Royle, Edward. Modern Britain: A Social History 1750–1997 (2nd ed. 1997), with detailed bibliography pp 406–444; Ryder, Judith, and Harold Silver. Modern English society: history and structure 1850-1970 (1970) online. Sharpe, J. A. Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 ...

  6. Society - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 December 2024. Connected group of individuals For other uses, see Society (disambiguation). Clockwise from top left: A family in Savannakhet, Laos ; a crowd shopping in Maharashtra, India; a military parade on a Spanish national holiday. A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social ...

  7. United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The term "Britain" is used as a synonym for Great Britain, [33] [34] ... Emigration was an important feature of British society in the 19th century. Between 1815 and ...

  8. The Establishment - Wikipedia

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    In sociology and in political science, the term The Establishment describes the dominant social group, the elite who control a polity, an organization, or an institution.In the praxis of wealth and power, the Establishment usually is a self-selecting, closed elite entrenched within specific institutions — hence, a relatively small social class can exercise all socio-political control.

  9. Wikipedia:Contents/Society and social sciences - Wikipedia

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    More abstractly, a society is defined as a network of relationships between social entities. A society is also sometimes defined as an interdependent community, but the sociologist Tönnies sought to draw a contrast between society and community. An important feature of society is social structure, aspects of which include roles and social ranking.