Class functioned as the coding system through which society read itself

Evidence

Class was the main locator of social position, that which organized our understanding of the main grid and group relations between social groups. They linked us to material life through the economy itself. They provided the code through which we read one another. They provided the codes through which we understood each others’ languages. They provided, of course, the notions of collective action itself, that which would unlock politics. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 191

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Society itself was historically constructed through calculability. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 372; Class power operates through hexes of restricted codes, not empirical facts — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1153