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The grouping of people who share a similar position in the economic order, defined by their relation to property, employment, and market rewards, and used to explain differences in life chances, power, and outlook. Marx defined it by ownership of the means of production and Weber by market situation, while gradational approaches simply rank people on a continuous ladder of income or status. Sørensen's 2000 Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis compared these rival definitions and argued for grounding class in the assets that generate durable economic advantage. The referent here is a location in human society, inferred from occupation and wealth, and it is not a blueprint for building software objects, a collection too large to be a set, or a rank in the classification of living things.[1]
In object-oriented programming, a template that defines the data (its fields) and the behaviour (its methods) shared by a family of objects, so that each object is an instance built from the class and holding its own copy of that state. Dahl and Nygaard introduced the construct in the SIMULA language, described in their 1966 SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language, where a class packaged together the variables and procedures belonging to one kind of entity. The referent is a reusable specification inside a program, from which objects are created while it runs, and it has nothing to do with a person's standing in society, a collection too big to be a set, or a taxonomic rank of organisms.[2]
In axiomatic set theory, a collection of objects marked out by a shared property that is too large to be a set, such as the class of all sets or the class of all ordinals; it can be spoken about but cannot itself belong to another collection. Bernays formalised this split between sets and classes in his 1937 A system of axiomatic set theory: Part I, building the framework now known as von Neumann, Bernays, and Gödel set theory. A collection small enough to be a member of another is a set rather than a proper class, and the equivalence class of an element is a separate meaning again: the set of things counted as equal under some relation. The referent is a formal totality in the foundations of mathematics, and it is unrelated to a rung in society, a software template, or a biological rank.[3]
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