From the BBC The new classes are defined as: Elite - the most privileged group in the UK, distinct from the other six classes through its wealth. This group has the highest levels of all three capitals Established middle class - the second wealthiest, scoring highly on all three capitals. The largest and most gregarious group, scoring second highest for cultural capital Technical middle class - a small, distinctive new class group which is prosperous but scores low for social and cultural capital. Distinguished by its social isolation and cultural apathy New affluent workers - a young class group which is socially and culturally active, with middling levels of economic capital Traditional working class - scores low on all forms of capital, but is not completely deprived. Its members have reasonably high house values, explained by this group having the oldest average age at 66 Emergent service workers - a new, young, urban group which is relatively poor but has high social and cultural capital Precariat, or precarious proletariat - the poorest, most deprived class, scoring low for social and cultural capital The article in full BBC News - Huge survey reveals seven social classes in UK
There's at least one missing.... The ferial, interbreed, Jeremy Kyle watching, legging wearing, pizza scoffing, fag smoking, Sky telly watching, stuck to the sofa, gastric bypass, dumb arsed pig fucker class..
"I know my place..." Hands up if you're old enough to recognise that bit of class-defining dialogue...
Interesting point - Six people commented and only two of them voted. Pretty much like a general election really !
Pigs are big strong animals, I had to help stop one escaping from a local animal welfare centre a few years ago, not easy I can tell you. ! I think the class you mention would go for a softer target, perhaps the old classic sheep for example .
Not really, how can you classify yourself against someone else's subjective and undefined criteria. I vote for salad cream.
Class. Who frankly gives a toss? It's a meaningless label that provides no indication of someone's worth as a human being. I don't care where they've come from. I'm much more interested in what they think, what they've done. I reckon I've been resented by one section of the population who seem to want to believe I am one thing, and looked down on by another section of the population who don't seem to think I am whatever they themselves think they are. I got so pissed off with it that I emigrated to somewhere where I am identified as being, from what people can work out, British. I don't have a problem with that. I can agree - I am. It's a different paradigm here generally. Rich knobs there will always be (plenty of them in Geneva) but there is no aristocracy - partly because there was never a King or Queen of Switzerland. Someone once told me you could look at any banker here, go back a generation or two and you'd find a farmer. And "working people" - mechanics, plumbers, butchers, bakers - are very respected here. Anyone who knows how to do something and does it well is respected. These people don't identify themselves with a class.
Nicely elucidated GoG exactly, it's not what I am, or what you perceiev i am, it's what I do in, inmy own defined terms, for society/the human race.
