The highest layer of the privileged class. Who are they?

Society can not be uniform, there are always those who can, want, get more, and those who are all only trying to survive. In this article, let's talk about the "superhumans", or "netobjects," the aristocracy.

Classes

Class is a historically formed group of people in society, which one related to the ownership and division of labour.

In any society, most often there are three main classes:

• Lower (oppressed);
• Supreme (ruling);
• Medium (living products the oppressed, seeking the highest).

In different historical periods there were classes of slave owners and slaves, feudal lords and peasants, bourgeoisie and the proletariat and others. Each class has its own layers, which are further divided, divide people.

The Highest layer of the privileged classes

Everyone strives for a better life. But there are vertices in the society, which is almost impossible to achieve, so special to be born to get into a privileged class.

The Princes, the nobles, the boyars, the elite of the Russian society of the 18th century.

In the beginning was the man, he is in a difficult situation turned out to be stronger, smarter, faster, and respected and glorify. The glory extended to his children and subsequent descendants.

So initially everyone can earn the respect and veneration, it formed the well-known genus. Several of these genera evolved in the class. People from the higher layer could proclaim each other to be equal for special merits - to give the title (attributed to some kind of layer).

The more developed (stratified) society, the harder it was to get into the highest layer of the privileged class. In the end, the opportunity for the layman is almost reduced to zero.

The Russian aristocracy

"Know" and "aristocracy" are all terms denoting the highest layer of the privileged class.

People who happen to somehow be attributed to him, have the opportunity to receive the best education, to travel, to do science. Before them opened the whole world.

But in tsarist Russia at the highest layer of the privileged class was assigned a big responsibility. It had been the main representatives of power, the face of the country, and look like they had respectively.

It was about education, knowledge of foreign languages, the political situation in the world of etiquette, fashion, dancing, and martial fine arts is just. In any area of life is an aristocrat was supposed to be the best.

The children were brought up by the pursuit of the ideal - valued honor, mind, virtue, compassion, and all the light that should be in man.

Any aristocrat much better able to cope with many challenges of life in General and life in particular, compared to many modern women.