The Price of an Organized Society: Conformity in the 1960s. ... Gropius was mainly concerned with conformity in architecture, but he recognized that buildings reflected society.
It's true.
Also it means
1. desegregated, especially racially
2. with various parts or aspects linked or coordinated
3. indicating the mean value or total sum of a variable quantity of property
Technically, yes, it is true that the development of the middle class signaled a decline in the importance of nobility, since people were able to have more economic freedom.