Class is changing yet again, and the new incarnation of the class-society is at its most advanced in the U.S. A good education is now the most important determinate of class, ...

The role of vessel classification societies continues to change dramatically. As the role and relevance of class is hotly debated, MR/EN picked the brains of the industry's major classification ...

The initial processes that eventually led to the emergence of class societies (although the word “class” does not appear anywhere in the PNAS article) began to appear during the last stages of ...

Why society became divided into classes. By Paul D'Amato | April 27, 2001 | Page 9. FOR MOST of our history, human societies knew "no soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles [or] kings, no ...

FOR MOST of our history, human societies knew "no soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles [or] kings, no prisons," Frederick Engels wrote. "All quarrels and disputes are settled by the whole ...

Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Center for Global Development, talked about the importance of building middle-class societies at a lecture entitled "Development in this Century: Building ...

The 19th-century middle classes also showed little concern over the social and political exclusion of large segments of society — minorities, women, workers.

In its discussion of historical middle class societies, The Economist reports, "Their members are neither rich nor poor but somewhere in-between. . . . 'Middle-class' describes an income category ...