Aristocracy (class)
The aristocracy
Etymology
The term aristocracy derives from the Greek ἀριστοκρατία (aristokratia from ἄριστος (aristos) 'excellent' and κράτος (kratos) 'power').[6] In most cases, aristocratic titles were and are hereditary.
The term aristokratia was first used in
From the ancient Greeks, the term passed to the European Middle Ages for a similar hereditary class of military leaders, often referred to as the nobility. As in Greece, this was a class of privileged men and women whose familial connections to the regional armies allowed them to present themselves as the most "noble" or "best" of society.
See also
- Gentry
- Landed gentry (United Kingdom)
- Landed gentry in China
- Landed gentry in Poland
- Honorifics
- Monarchy
- Capitalism
- Nobility
- Upper class
- Imtiaz (Egypt)
- Chieftaincy (Nigeria)
- Old money
- Peerage (United Kingdom)
- Royal and noble ranks
- Styles(manner of address)
- Royal and noble styles (royal and noble)
- Forms of address in the United Kingdom
- Titles
- Social capital
- Social environment
- Symbolic capital
- Honour
- Moral responsibility
- Yangban (Korea)
- Kuge (Japan)
- Zamindar or Jenmi (India)
References
- ^ "Definition of Aristocracy". Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
- ^ Definition (2) of Aristocracy
- ^ The Aristocrats: a portrait of Britain's nobility and their way of life today, by Roy Perrott, (London 1968), pp. 5–10.
- ^ Native Wood Preservation Ltd, on British Aristocracy and Hierarchy
- ^ Modern European societies and the nobility of aristocracy
- ISBN 978-0-19-866176-4