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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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.
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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
What occurs is a brilliantly tense game of first-person hide-and-seek with a commanding sense of style: schlocky B-movie monster horror à la John Carpenter through the class-conscious lens of Ken Loach.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
In its first 45-minute installment, Disclaimer feels reminiscent of Big Little Lies and Expats and any number of class-conscious series that tend to star Nicole Kidman.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
As the rules of White’s class-conscious universe dictate, the partnership is doomed.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
Unlike future versions that would run the gamut from boyish and conflicted (The Talented Mr. Ripley) to chessmaster-level calculating (Netflix’s Ripley), Delon’s class-conscious con man is more of a cypher.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
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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
What occurs is a brilliantly tense game of first-person hide-and-seek with a commanding sense of style: schlocky B-movie monster horror à la John Carpenter through the class-conscious lens of Ken Loach.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
In its first 45-minute installment, Disclaimer feels reminiscent of Big Little Lies and Expats and any number of class-conscious series that tend to star Nicole Kidman.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
As the rules of White’s class-conscious universe dictate, the partnership is doomed.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
Unlike future versions that would run the gamut from boyish and conflicted (The Talented Mr. Ripley) to chessmaster-level calculating (Netflix’s Ripley), Delon’s class-conscious con man is more of a cypher.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
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“Class-conscious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/class-conscious. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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