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class structure  

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  • ECONOMIC CLASS IS often seen as a function of income and wealth levels. According to this way of thinking, there are lower, middle, and upper classes, or alternatively, the poor, the middle class, and the rich. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Class Structure]

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