ruling class

C6364
concept

The ruling class is the social group that holds dominant political, economic, and cultural power within a society, enabling it to shape institutions, policies, and prevailing ideologies in its own interests.

All labels observed (15)

Label Occurrences
ruling elite 8
historical social class 7
ruling class canonical 6

Instances (36)

Instance Via concept surface
German Army officer corps social elite
Tribes of Galway historical social class
Jerusalem priestly families social elite
Protestant Ascendancy historical social class
Meiji oligarchy
South African elite families power elite
Rohilla chiefs ruling elite
Mamluk rulers of Egypt
Roman imperial family social elite
Shamsa bint Suhail Al Mazrouei member of ruling elite
Peshwa faction ruling elite
Cholulan nobles indigenous elite
Tlaxcalan leadership ruling elite
Burghers of Plzeň historical social class
Deuxième État historical social class
Guatemalan conservative oligarchy
Hawaiian aliʻi ruling elite
Turkic mamluks ruling elite
Mamluk emirs
Vietnamese mandarins bureaucratic elite
Ryukyuan aristocracy
leadership of Workers' Party of Korea ruling elite
Egyptian state establishment governing elite
First Families of Virginia historical elite
Norman-Irish nobility historical social class
South Carolina planters landowning class
Goose Creek Men political faction
surface form: Goose Creek Men
colonial elite group
Inner Party
Tulsa oil barons historical social class
Communist Party leadership governing elite
Ashina clan nomadic ruling elite
Vikings of Dublin ruling elite
Earth's ruling elite in "Pebble in the Sky" fictional ruling class
John Tayloe III Federal-era elite
Makhzen governing elite
Muskegon lumber barons historical social class