The aristocracy is historically associated with a "hereditary" or a "ruling" social class. In many states, the aristocracy included the upper class of...

Aristocracy (from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατίᾱ (aristokratíā) 'rule of the best'; from ἄριστος (áristos) 'best', and κράτος (krátos) 'power, strength')...

emphasis was on aristocracy, which emphasized generations of inherited noble status, not just recent wealth. Because the upper classes of a society may...

Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies. An individual's relative position in one might be higher...

are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy. They...

clan-based warrior culture society that recognizes a separate warrior aristocracy, class, or caste. Warriors seem to have been present in the earliest pre-state...

Labor aristocracy or labour aristocracy (also aristocracy of labor) has at least four meanings: (1) as a term with Marxist theoretical underpinnings;...

downfall of ruling classes in the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and later for the creation of Vichy France. Aristocracy Class consciousness Elite...

knight's fees were small) were likely excluded from the aristocracy. By 1300, the knightly class or gentry numbered around 3,000 landholders. Half of these...

The natural aristocracy is a concept developed by Thomas Jefferson in 1813 which describes a hypothetical political elite that derives its power from...