Attention to social stratification in the public discourse: An empirical study based on big data of books (1949–2008)

The Journal of Chinese Sociology

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of class- and stratum-related words in Google Books (simplified Chinese), 1949–2008

Key words of “Class”	Statistics			Key words of “Stratum”	Statistics
Key words of “Class”	Mean	Standard deviation	Coefficient of variation	Key words of “Stratum”	Mean	Standard deviation	Coefficient of variation
Class struggle	9.465	12.220	1.291	Social status	0.965	0.433	0.449
Class oppression	0.320	0.334	1.041	Stratum consciousness	0.000	0.001	.1.308
Class status	0.199	0.208	1.045	Social stratification	0.000	0.001	1.956
Class line	0.160	0.156	\(9.76\times {10}^{7}\)	Stratum cognition	0.002	0.004	2.521
Class Dictatorship	6.947	11.120	1.601	Stratum identify	0.001	0.001	1.331
Anti-revolution	86.380	46.260	0.535	Stratum isolation	0.000	0.000	1.894
Revolution	6.220	6.373	1.025	Stratum conflict	0.001	0.002	2.238
Rectification	7.027	6.308	0.898	Elite class	0.012	0.022	1.835
Left deviation	141.700	103.300	0.7288	Middle class	0.035	0.067	1.907
Right deviation	1.154	0.558	0.484	Poverty class	0.015	0.020	1.321
Proletariat	0.533	0.237	0.445	Executive	0.018	0.022	1.212
Working class	0.153	0.152	0.994	Blue collar	0.009	0.011	1.136
The masses	0.497	0.428	0.862	White collar	0.065	0.083	1.269
Leader	0.585	0.411	0.703	Manager	4.325	3.648	0.843
Right wing	60.330	34.280	0.568	Public servant	1.419	1.620	1.142
Capitalist	3.552	2.418	0.681	Scholar	8.338	5.875	0.705
Landlord	4.328	3.730	0.862	Peasant worker	0.678	1.590	2.346
Rich peasant	0.113	0.057	0.502	Entrepreneur	0.000	0.000	1.654
Poor peasant	0.533	0.408	0.765	Private entrepreneur	0.584	1.152	1.974
Middle peasant	0.276	0.168	0.608	Clerk	1.207	0.585	0.485

To make it more legible, we multiply the means and standard deviations for all word frequency shares by 10,000