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The 48 pages that link to Social class, each with the reason it gives.

• RealismRelated: Class relations gave Realist depictions of work and poverty much of their social force.

• Literary realismRelated: Class relations supply many of realism’s conflicts, settings, and character constraints.

• Social historyRelated: Class shaped access to resources, status, and life chances across historical societies.

• IdeologyRelated: Ideologies often interpret class interests and justify or challenge class relations.

• Social reproductionRelated: Class position shapes the resources and opportunities available to families.

• Crime fictionRelated: Class shapes access to protection, vulnerability to policing, and motives in many crime narratives.

• Comedy of mannersRelated: Class determines who holds influence and whose behavior is mocked.

• Conflict theoryRelated: Class divisions provide a key framework for analyzing competing interests.

• Historical romanceRelated: Class boundaries often determine which relationships are possible or socially acceptable.

• Social inequalityRelated: Class is one framework for describing structured differences in resources, status, and life chances.

• Mode of productionRelated: Class positions arise from people’s differing relations to production.

• F. Scott FitzgeraldRelated: Fitzgerald’s plots often turn on barriers between inherited status and newly acquired wealth.

• Marriage plotRelated: Class boundaries make romantic choice collide with family strategy and economic security.

• Social novelRelated: Class relations frequently determine the opportunities and constraints faced by social-novel characters.

• American literary realismRelated: Class shapes the opportunities and constraints that realist characters face.

• Edith WhartonRelated: Inherited position and money determine which futures her characters can pursue.

• Thomas HardyRelated: Class barriers repeatedly limit the education, marriage, and mobility of Hardy’s characters.

• Marxist sociologyRelated: Class position organizes the inequalities and conflicts central to Marxist explanations.

• The Prince and the PauperRelated: The novel tests how much a person’s treatment depends on social rank rather than character.

• William Graham SumnerRelated: His essays examined class conflict and the political demands made in its name.

• My Fair LadyRelated: Eliza’s apparent class changes when others interpret her speech and manners differently.

• Ralf DahrendorfRelated: He recast class around unequal authority, rather than ownership alone.

• Ivan GoncharovRelated: Oblomov’s inherited landowner status gives his idleness material support and historical context.

• Masquerade ballRelated: Costumes and anonymity can blur, but do not necessarily erase, distinctions of rank.

• Cousin BetteRelated: Bette’s lower status within the family fuels exclusion and her pursuit of influence.

• Jack and the BeanstalkRelated: The contrast between Jack’s poverty and the giant’s abundance frames the conflict.

• Jude the ObscureRelated: Jude’s working-class origins limit his access to university education.

• Public bathingRelated: Access to baths and the spaces within them have often reflected social divisions.

• S. E. HintonRelated: The Greasers and Socs in The Outsiders embody class divisions that shape teenage conflict.

• White-collar workerRelated: White-collar work has often been treated as a marker of class position, though not a uniform one.

• Cecily von ZiegesarRelated: Differences in wealth and status drive many of the novels’ conflicts.

• Dimitar DimovRelated: Class relations organize the workplace and private lives depicted in Tobacco.

• Society (social elite)Related: Class position often shapes access to elite networks and institutions.

• Telefoni BianchiRelated: Class differences drive the genre’s romances, misunderstandings, and fantasies of upward mobility.

• Wuthering Heights (novel)Related: Heathcliff’s uncertain origins and changing fortune expose class barriers within the plot.