The Emergence Machine

Class (Social sense)

abstract · Sociology · Level 3 · E11

E11Organizations

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

A stratum of society based on shared economic and social characteristics, which is a way of organizing being into distinct groups.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “class social” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “class social”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
class
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0Class SocialBeingFormStructureExistenceMatterQualityEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

used byprerequisitesSexualityL8CasteL10AssociationL12Equality SocL12LegitimacyL12Class SocialL3BeingL2FormL2StructureL2E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Being L2 (requires)
    being is the entity that class-social is about
  • Form L2 (requires)
    Understanding form helps understand the structure of class-social
  • Structure L2 (requires) polysemous
    Remediation: break cycle

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