#elitism
- Anti-intellectual — Manifesting hostility, distrust, or contempt toward intellectuals, culture, science, and academic education; tending to underestimate or reject the importance of critical thinking and spiritual values in society. In a structural sense, it describes populist movements, conservative social attitudes, or simplifying political discourses.
- Anti-intellectualist — Manifesting the characteristics of anti-intellectualism or being an adherent of this movement; adherents or movements that challenge the legitimacy, authority, or value of cultural and scientific elites. In a structural sense, it describes a doctrine or action directed toward minimizing the role of higher education in public life.
- Aristocratism — An attitude, doctrine, or behavior characterized by attachment to the values, privileges, and lifestyle of the aristocracy. The term denotes caste spirit, caste pride, or the tendency to exhibit exclusivism, exaggerated refinement, and social or intellectual superiority in relation to the general public.
- Aristocratized — Having been transformed in an aristocratic manner or having acquired traits specific to the aristocracy; a social, cultural, or aesthetic process through which a person, social class, environment, or institution adopts the manners, lifestyle, exclusivism, or refinement standards of the nobility. In a sociological sense, it describes the alteration of an entity's popular or common character in favor of an elitist conduct.