underclass in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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The elite see themselves as inherently superior, and view the underclass as amoral, ruthless, and dispensable.
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The lumpenproletariat is the underclass, those with little to no social status.
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If the underclass women found the crook, they were safe that year.
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As a result, the ghetto becomes primarily occupied by what sociologists and journalists of the 1980s and 1990s frequently title the underclass.
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However, many scholars are careful not to equate concentrated poverty with the underclass.
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Linked to this discussion of the underclass being psychologically deviant, the underclass is also said to have low levels of cognition and literacy.
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The wholesale option includes both conservatives and liberals who are optimistic that government action can solve the underclass problem.
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Northerners typically saw bounty jumpers as either urban, largely foreign underclass worthy of contempt, or viewed as urban dandies.
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The underclass concept has been a point of controversy among social scientists.
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The underclass experiences high levels of joblessness, and what little employment its members hold in the formal economy is best described as precarious labor.
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