class-conscious
adjective
class-con·scious
ˈklas-ˈkän(t)-shəs 
1
: actively aware of one's common status with others in a particular economic or social level of society
2
: believing in class struggle
class consciousness
noun
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That Zionism is further associated with Herman’s desire to move out to the suburbs is also telling: Mikey’s class-conscious mother wants to remain on the multiethnic Chrystie Street rather than move to the isolated and assimilationist suburbs.
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Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
The Friend is Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s class-conscious lament for how urban sophisticates (Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and a Great Dane) deny but can’t escape spiritual obligations.
—Armond White, National Review, 9 July 2025
The show's success speaks to audiences' appetite for class-conscious entertainment that recognizes the struggle of late-stage capitalism.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 26 June 2025
This is a chatty, class-conscious relationship drama about the challenges of intimacy and the dangers of distance, and its characters are overpowered by the sheer resourcefulness with which Soderbergh brings them to life.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Boston was a heavily white city at the time, and O’Grady said her class-conscious parents didn’t relate to many of the African Americans there, including upper-class Black Bostonians.
—Jillian Steinhauer, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
As the rules of White’s class-conscious universe dictate, the partnership is doomed.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
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Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
The Friend is Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s class-conscious lament for how urban sophisticates (Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and a Great Dane) deny but can’t escape spiritual obligations.
—Armond White, National Review, 9 July 2025
The show's success speaks to audiences' appetite for class-conscious entertainment that recognizes the struggle of late-stage capitalism.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 26 June 2025
This is a chatty, class-conscious relationship drama about the challenges of intimacy and the dangers of distance, and its characters are overpowered by the sheer resourcefulness with which Soderbergh brings them to life.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Boston was a heavily white city at the time, and O’Grady said her class-conscious parents didn’t relate to many of the African Americans there, including upper-class Black Bostonians.
—Jillian Steinhauer, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
As the rules of White’s class-conscious universe dictate, the partnership is doomed.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Class-conscious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/class-conscious. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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