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Aclassless society is asociety in which no one is born into asocial class like in aclass society.Distinctions of wealth,income,education,culture, orsocial network might arise and would onlybe determined by individual experience and achievement in such a society.Thus, the concept posits not the absence of asocial hierarchy but the uninheritability of class status.Helen Codere defines social class as a segment of the community, the members of which show a common social position in a hierarchical ranking.[1] Codere suggests that a true class-organized society is one in which thehierarchy ofprestige andsocial status is divisible into groups. Each group with its own social, economic, attitudinal and cultural characteristics, and each having differential degrees of power in community decision.[1]
The termclasslessness has been used to describe different social phenomena.[citation needed]
In societies where classes have been abolished, it is usually the result of a voluntary decision by the membership to form such asociety to abolish a pre-existing class structure in an existing society or to form a new one without any. This would includecommunes of the modern period such as variousAmerican utopian communities or thekibbutzim as well as revolutionary and political acts at thenation-state level such as theParis Commune or theRussian Revolution. The abolition of social classes and the establishment of a classless society is the primary goal ofanarchism,communism andlibertarian socialism.[citation needed]
According toUlrich Beck, classlessness is achieved with class struggle: "It is the collective success with class struggle which institutionalizes individualization and dissolves the culture of classes, even under conditions of radicalizing inequalities".[2][failed verification] Essentially, classlessness will exist when theinequalities and injustice out ranks societies idea of the need for social ranking and hierarchy.[citation needed]
While Rolf Becker and Andreas Hadjar argue that class identity has weakened, in that "class position no longer generates a deep sense of identity and belonging",[3][failed verification] others maintain that class continues to affect lives, such as how children's success in education correlates with their parents' wealth.[4][failed verification]
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