The phrase "class striving" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the efforts or ambitions of a particular social class to improve their status or conditions.
Example: "The novel explores the theme of class striving, highlighting the struggles of the working class to achieve upward mobility."
Alternatives: "social class ambition" or "class struggle".
There are plenty of well-paid jobs again, he says, for the brainy types in the Bay Area, and plenty of unskilled jobs everywhere for ill-educated Latinos, but a painful squeeze for the middle class, striving to be home-owners in a state where the median price for a single-family home has doubled in the past five years to more than $450,000.
If the thirties and forties were the golden age of the Great Books programs — the tools of a middle class striving toward the academy — TED is a recourse for college-educated adults who want to close the gap between academic thought and the lives they live now.
From the class striving of Sidney Poitier's everyman in the classic film "A Raisin in the Sun" to Will Smith's messianic loners in recent titles like "I Am Legend," the movies have ennobled, consecrated, glorified, immortalized and, most important, normalized the figure of the black man.
Shaw asserted that each social class strove to serve its own ends, and that the upper and middle classes won in the struggle while the working class lost.
I suffered under the misapprehension that I was an Old World aristocrat manqué, rather than a middle-class, striving and slightly affected New Yorker descended from peasants.
The Basziles' experience in Palos Verdes Estates is a story for the ostensibly post-racial Obama era: the tale of an upper-middle-class African-American family striving to get ahead while sensing that it is somehow at the same time too black and not nearly black enough.
The middle classes strove to do better, and they are striving still.
Emporia State classes strive to balance the theoretical with the practical.
Derived from the Italian burlesco, a satire achieved through parody, burlesque celebrated the underdog, mocked the upper classes, strove to ease the tensions of the American melting pot through sallies of coarse ethnic humor, and, unlike the chaster vaudeville, allayed gender tensions through heavy sexual innuendo.
In short, the two pathways from poverty into the middle class -- striving for a good education and home ownership -- are becoming trap doors from the middle class into poverty.
CLASS warriors striving to upend Brazil's stratified society?
