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class consciousness

The definition of class consciousness is an awareness or knowledge of social standing and caste systems, often based on wealth or family background and history.

(noun)

An example of class consciousness is the thinking of a country club where only people who have had wealth for generations can join.

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See class consciousness in Webster's New World College Dictionary

an awareness of belonging to a class in the social order, with definite economic interests; sense of class solidarity

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