What is the word for someone who judges people by their sociological class status?

Question

If one is very judgmental against those of a different race one is racist, but what if the judgment accounts for the sociological class they are considered to be in? (i.e. trailer trash, ghetto, etc...) Is their a word for this type of discrimination?

Answer 1

snob

Answer 2

Bigot or bigotry covers that description, too.

big·ot    (bgt)  NOUN:

One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

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ETYMOLOGY:

French, from Old French

WORD HISTORY:

Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person." Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense "a superstitious hypocrite."

Answer 3

My sister thinks she's from the ghetto but she is not.

Answer 4

You are thinking of an "ethnocentric" person.

Main Entry: eth·no·cen·tric  

Pronunciation: \ˌeth-nō-ˈsen-trik\

Function: adjective

Date: 1900

: characterized by or based on the attitude that one's own group is superior

Answer 5

A snob and or ignorant

Answer 6

CLASSIST- As in judging others by their economic position.