The phrase "a marker of class" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that signifies or indicates a particular social class or status.
Example: "In many societies, education is often seen as a marker of class, influencing how individuals are perceived and treated."
Alternatives: "a sign of social status" or "an indicator of class".
As a positional good, the diamond engagement ring functions as a marker of class, and at this stage it works to highlight, rather than erode, social and economic disparity.
Still, for Orwell, scent is little more than a marker of class.
But learning how one particular group uses the word "slut" as a marker of class helped the researchers to understand slut stigma and fear of a "bad reputation" in a more nuanced way.
One paper reported a 180-kb region of class II, spanning HLA-DRB1, HLA-DQA1, and HLADQB [ 95], whereas the second signal was found in a marker of the class III gene SKIV2L.
Smarsh writes about teeth as a marker of economic class and social standing in America.
The story is divided into eight chapters, one for each of eight "revolutions" in our ancestors' approach to food: the invention of cooking, the attachment of symbolic meaning to food, the development of herding, the birth of agriculture, the use of food as a marker of social class, the trade of food between cultures, the transfer of foodstuffs between continents, and, finally, industrialization.
Paternal occupation at birth was classified as manual vs. non-manual and used as a marker of social class in the analyses which follow.
Whether CEC recruitment is an intrinsic characteristic of some tumour types or a marker of drug class effect or associations, or whether our method lacks sensitivity to discriminate different patient outcomes, remains an open question.
"If I were in Pakistan I would never have been able to wear hijab," she said, because in her parents' circles it is a marker of lower classes.
The Seneca Falls Convention Statement does not mention the body, but Sojourner Truth's famous speech to the Ohio Women's convention drew attention to the body as a marker of race and class differences within the feminist movement.
For quite a long time, this unprepossessing striped tube of white cotton has signified not merely the dregs of unfashionable dressing, but a pretty intractable marker of class as well.
