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单词 social scale
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social scale
(a) Of rank, position, class, etc., as social class, social equality, social scale, etc.
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1756 T. Rutherforth Inst. Nat. Law II. iv. 90 As there is a natural equality amongst mankind, before they unite in civil society, so there is a social equality amongst them, after they are united.
1794 C. Pigott Female Jockey Club 61 Men, since their formation into social classes, have certainly lost sight of the grand object—the greater good.
1814 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey through France 22 The labouring class here is certainly much higher, on the social scale, than with us.
1840 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Mar. 262 The demoralizing effect of great inequalities in wealth and social rank.
a1876 H. Martineau Autobiogr. (1877) I. 297 Norwich..has now no claims to social superiority.
1901 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 7 399 He makes a better home and moves upward in the social scale, perhaps, faster than the immigrant from any other country.
1967 A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. ii. 86 The medieval peasant..his illiteracy, his social inferiority.
1973 Listener 28 June 863/2 The Industrial Revolution..became in time a social revolution and established that social equality on which we all depend.
2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xii. 314 The only friend I had whose dad was not of my social class..had been to a comprehensive where he'd told people his dad was a brickie.
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