social stratum
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandstratum
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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stratum
noun[C]
uk/ˈstrɑː.təm/us/ˈstreɪt̬.əm/
one of the parts or layers into which something ...
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(Definition ofsocialandstratumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is the descriptive term which will be applied to thesocialstratumwith which this theme issue deals.
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In a real and not just symbolic sense, it seems possible now to market oneself into a differentsocialstratum.
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Milliners and mantuamakers were similar insocialstratum.
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The best source for deciding the wealth andsocialstratumof the willmakers is no doubt the probate material.
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It is widely understood of contemporary western societies that a person's socioeconomic characteristics or, if preferred,socialstratumor class, manifest themselves in correlated social, income and occupational attributes.
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Tenants do not belong to a second-ratesocialstratum.
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I do not wish to sound prejudiced, but they overwhelmingly represent onesocialstratumand one type of life and experience.
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I take it, therefore, that these are children coming from homes representing about the samesocialstratumin each of the districts.
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If they are all from onesocialstratum, it may be that they have an unconscious bias.
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They were in a differentsocialstratumthan that of the owner and were expected to know their place.
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However even those in the "middle classes" will generally have worse health outcomes than those of a highersocialstratum.
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The lowersocialstratumtry their best to imitate the non-productive lifestyle of the upper classes, even though they do not really have means for catching up.
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One of these tensions may have derived from the divergent ways in which different social strata internalised the nation's past.
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Current and future generations of older people, especially from different social strata, may experience retirement in rather different ways from those featured here.
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This difference was ultimately linked to the type of work the people from these social strata undertook.
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The impact of son preference on fertility persists in all the social strata considered in the study.
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While violence towards children occurs in all social strata, violent behaviors towards children, particularly severe violence, is more likely in poor families.
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The whole range of social strata of the northeastern population of the colonies was drawn into efforts to increase production.
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Will-makers came from all social strata, the affluent as well as the quite poor.
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