Sentence examples for class origin from inspiring English sources

Of petty samurai (warrior class) origin, Iwasaki began his business career as the financial manager of the feudal fief of Tosa.

Unlike her successful female forerunners Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, who both came from cultivated, prosperous and protective backgrounds, Artemisia, whose mother died when she was 12, was of lower class origin and grew up in a rough, sometimes violent, household.

The cost-benefit calculation varies by social class origin, so that the subjectively expected utility determines educational decisions and accordant social inequalities.

Finally, by using family status origin as the proxy for one's non-certifiable qualifications, this study also indicates the important role one's class origin plays in the reproduction and reinforcement of social status.

Whereas former research has repeatedly shown that the effect of social class origin on the educational performance of native pupils is larger in countries with differentiated educational systems (see e.g. Dupriez et al., 2008; Duru-Bellat and Suchaut, 2005; Pfeffer, 2008; and Schütz, Ursprung, and Wössmann,2005), we find the opposite pattern for migrant pupils.

His working class origin has also been cited as contributing to his suitability to a Labor government.

Ironically, portraiture of Jesus has hidden his true class origins to our detriment.

Yet on the mainland his class origins as the grandson of executed landlords were long black marks held against him.

I also had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

Still, her class origins — she was the daughter of a Ukrainian land owner — were considered suspect, as was her knowledge of English and French.

Not that he tried to hide his class origins: on the contrary, he'd honed them into a weapon to use against his colleagues and friends.