Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. groups of people
6. social groups

Narrower term/s

• castes
• [social classes by specific type][+]
  • peasantry [+]
    • peasants [NP] [+]
      • fellahin
  • middle class [+]
    • bourgeoisie
  • upper class [+]
    • aristocracy (social class) [+]
      • nobility [+]
    • patricians [NP]
    • gentry
  • working class [+]
    • proletariat [+]
      • impoverished people [NP]
  • chōnin
  • machishū
  • commoners

Anotations

Scope note:

Levels in human populations distinguished by degree of wealth or privilege, modes of labor, way of life, or other social, economic, or cultural factors.