socio-economic class vs caste

caste vs socio-economic class

socio-economic class and caste both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
socio-economic class	Yes	No	No	No
caste	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, caste is a hyponym of socio-economic class; that is, caste is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than socio-economic class:

socio-economic class: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
caste: a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth

Other hyponyms of socio-economic class include domain, world, age class, agriculture, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, estate, estate of the realm, the three estates, labor, labour, proletariat, working class, lower class, underclass, bourgeoisie, middle class, booboisie, commonality, commonalty, commons, peasantry, demimonde, underworld, yeomanry, upper class, upper crust, ninja, firing line, immigrant class, center, centre, old school, market, craft, trade, fair sex, woman, womanhood, patriciate.

socio-economic class (noun)	caste (noun)
people having the same social, economic, or educational status	in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
	a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
	(Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
	social status or position conferred by a system based on class

Difference between socio-economic class and caste

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