Editing Social class (section)

==Relationship between ethnicity and class==
{{Further|Racial inequality}}
[[File:Elizaveta with Black Servant by Grooth (1743, Hermitage).jpg|thumb|upright|Equestrian portrait of Empress [[Elizabeth of Russia]] with a [[Moors|Moor]] servant]]

[[Race (classification of human beings)|Race]] and other large-scale groupings can also influence class standing. The association of particular ethnic groups with class statuses is common in many societies, and is linked with race as well.<ref name="apamin">{{cite web |url=https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/minorities |access-date=2022-11-11 |date=2017 |title=Ethnic and Racial Minorities & Socioeconomic Status |website=American Psychological Association |archive-date=25 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025142820/https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/minorities |url-status=live }}</ref> Class and ethnicity can impact a person's or community's socioeconomic standing, which in turn influences everything including job availability and the quality of available health and education.<ref name="apamin"/> The [[Label (sociology)|labels]] ascribed to an individual change the way others perceive them, with multiple labels associated with stigma combining to worsen the social consequences of being labelled.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Pip |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-O9DAEACAAJ |title=Introducing Social Theory |last2=Bradbury |first2=Liz |publisher=Polity Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-5095-0504-3 |edition=3rd|location=Cambridge, UK |pages=104–114 |access-date=13 April 2022 |archive-date=19 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219212413/https://books.google.com/books?id=y-O9DAEACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

As a result of conquest or internal ethnic differentiation, a ruling class is often ethnically homogenous and particular races or ethnic groups in some societies are legally or customarily restricted to occupying particular class positions.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} Which ethnicities are considered as belonging to high or low classes varies from society to society.

In modern societies, strict legal links between ethnicity and class have been drawn, such as the [[caste system in Africa]], [[apartheid]], the position of the [[Burakumin]] in Japanese society and the [[casta]] system in [[Latin America]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cunningham |first1=John |title=Roaring Twenties |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Roaring-Twenties |website=britannica.com/topic/Roaring-Twenties |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannic |access-date=10 May 2024}}</ref>