Social Hierarchy Crossword Clue

Social Hierarchy Crossword Clue. Daily Telegraph Sydney’s two speed crossword on Saturday, 10 June 2017. 10 letters. Also appear in The Courier Mail and Herald Sun newspaper.
The cryptic clue: Best social group in High School probably

The Answer: UPPER CLASS

Others answer: PECKING ORDER, STATUS

The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of the wealthiest members of society, who also wield the greatest political power. According to this view, the upper class is generally distinguished by immense wealth which is passed on from generation to generation. Prior to the 20th century, the nomenclature aristocracy was widely used.

Because the upper classes of a society may no longer rule the society in which they are living, they are often referred to as the old upper classes and they are often culturally distinct from the newly rich middle classes that tend to dominate public life in modern social democracies.

According to the latter view held by the traditional upper classes, no amount of individual wealth or fame would make a person from an undistinguished background into a member of the upper class as one must be born into a family of that class and raised in a particular manner so as to understand and share upper class values, traditions, and cultural norms.