Snugly and smugly established middle class.
On an individual level this sort of thing is an inaccurate and largely irrelevant load of pish.
New Effluent Worker - always suspected my life was shit!
Established middle class
Mind you given the weekend's front garden activities, it would sound about right!
Elite: This is the most privileged class in Great Britain who have high levels of all three capitals. Their high amount of economic capital sets them apart from everyone else.
But then, I already knew that.
(Don't think less of me. I can't seem to get smilies on my iPad.)
Established middle class, feeling more like precarious middlers tbh.
I reckon that membership of nearly any sports club with a good social scene would bump you up the scale, as it probably did in our case.
ask yourself if you have to get up in the morning?....if the answer is yes then you work for a living regardless of how wealthy you are.
Or you're unemployed. 😀
My point is the money you earn and hours you work doesn't mean you work hard, doing a few extras hours a week when you have a cushy well paid job where compared to someone who is on minimum wage and works none stop isn't going to be too bad.
I know what you were desperately trying to say Drac. You were a just bit quick in with the predictable [i]undeserving wealthy/deserving poor[/i] line before you had read properly what had been written.
Established middle class. Seems to rely a lot on how much I earn and how many people I know. Which makes absolutely no sense at all.
How much you earn is about how much you earn, it's not where you sit in a social structure.
Who you know depends on how friendly you are.
Neither of these things defines your class which is more about a state of mind and attitude.
Technical Middle here too. Hangin wiv the cool kids, innit?
Perfectly happy to stay here since moving further up the social ladder apparently involves making friends with CEOs, visiting stately homes, and listening to jazz. #WorstNightmare
Elite, they are wrong.
Elite! whippeeeeee. Went from Sport Class to Expert but never made it to elite. Does that mean I can win xc races by just turning up?
Apparently I went to public school and university, can't remember any of that.
I'd call myself/us the privileged, very pleased to be where we are knowing who we do and be able ride, walk and run (that was nearly not the case).
New affluent worker. Which is ironic, because I'm from a distinctly middle class upbringing. Meh.
This.
Interesting how many people here are in denial about how middle-class or even 'elite' they are, and are keen to see themselves as more working class.
Emergent service workers
Apparently?
People only ever want to be working class or upper class, surely.
I'll admit to being middle class. White collar worker, good education, reasonable wage, Heinz baked beans. I eat fruit that doesn't have chocolate around it.
I'd like to be seen as working class but only because I'm a northerner.
As I said previously, it's about attitude more than anything else. When you go to the doctor and don't get what you want what do you do?
Working class people will bitch about the educated people putting them down, my wife is working class because she does this and inherently distrusts them. Because I'm middle class I'll debate with them and demand in a clear and concise manner that I am given what I want.
Neither of these things defines your class which is more about a state of mind and attitude.
This. Money has very little to do with it. I knew a scrap metal dealer who was a 'gorger' (a Traveller who lived in a house) he delivered our washing machine in the boot of his roller, he went to the races and the opera. common as muck, working class but loaded.
Elite here, and nothing to do with income either.
But irrelevent of our income over the last 20 years I'd say we are Middle Class, purely due to attitude, the way we live and what we enjoy.
'Elite'. 😯
That 'test' is a load of bollocks. Why does anyone need to know what class they are, other than to feel superior/inferior to others?
I'd like to be seen as working class but only because I'm a northerner.
Why? Because of the perceived 'glamour' associated with that notion, brought about through various mythical constructs created by those with a vested interest in categorising people within a society? Why allow yourself to be put in a box?
Emergent Service Worker or Precariat if I answer some questions slightly differently.
Which is a load of bollocks. I'm not quite sure what they're trying to do with these classifications, but if they want categories which are actually useful they need to ask more sensible questions...
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Interesting how many people here are in denial about how middle-class or even 'elite' they are, and are keen to see themselves as more working class."
Not me matey I'm ecstatic to be elite. Know what you mean though. The survey was a bit rubbish and not nuanced enough.
What a load of shit! This is even less acurate than the BMI scale!
Do we really need MORE classes?
Elite apparently - by virtue of having paid a lot into my pension which for some reason they think is 'savings'
If i discounted that, and counted only stuff i really count as savings - technical middle class, like the rest of us.
I think they're trying to make "class" a bit more like the marketeers classifications - DINKs, ABC1, whatever.
Elite, whatever that is....
[i]What class are you?[/i]
I am a walking, talking, lesson in Stupids. Qualified and everything.
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[i]Do we really need MORE classes[/i]
Depends, what results did you get in your exams ?
I am another émergent service worker. Which seems to mean you are young (I am not), live in a former industrial city (I don't) are financially insecure (yep) and like rock music and sport (yep)
i am ashamed..........middle class.
[i]like rock music[/i]
Ah, you lost me there.
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Elite apparently - by virtue of having paid a lot into my pension which for some reason they think is 'savings'
If i discounted that, and counted only stuff i really count as savings - technical middle class, like the rest of us."
You have paid into a pension, that makes you Elite like it or not. Your posh so get you sneering lessons done. haw haw haw.
Affluent worker. I rarely work and I'm not particularly affluent but I did go to the theatre last October so....
Precariat, suits me fine
[i]I did go to the theatre last October[/i]
That makes you next inline to the throne, round my way.
Elite apparently. But on the descriptions I identify more with the middle class groups. Though that may be the class denial thing people are talking about.
And for the lad who thinks £300k gets a four bed house with land in Yorkshire - maybe for a fixer-upper, not for an actual habitable house within commuting distance of any of the cities/large towns.
[i][b]Precariat[/b], suits me fine [/i]
You just made that word up.
It's only a bit of fun!
So two candidates for MR Polly Toynbee identified already! 😉
Thx, I am glad that we agree about, why put yourself in a box? There seems to be an obsession about it (especially here). On a forum yesterday, one bloke was asking another (several times) to identify which professional, background, inside trouser leg box he was in!!! Strange, isn't it? 😉
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Thx, I am glad that we agree about, why put yourself in a box? There seems to be an obsession about it (especially here). On a forum yesterday, one bloke was asking another (several times) to identify which professional, background, inside trouser leg box he was in!!! Strange, isn't it?
What I found puzzling about this particular 'test', was that at the end it told me that the 'elite' classes mix with all sorts of people from different backgrounds and professions. Where in reality, the economic elite simply don't. Yet somehow feel qualified to comment on others. There's a diffrence between [i]thinking[/i] you know about stuff, and [i]actually[/i] knowing about it.
Some folk base all of their ideas of society from figures and statistics. Strange, isn't it? 😉
I don't think this fits me at all.
Tehnical Middle Class like many on here but that seems to be mostly as I don't know a wide range of people - mostly professionals. Otherwise I pretty much match the Elite graph.
Maybe it considers me a failure 🙂 in previous generations my family were upper class and I went to public school.
It's just a bit of fun on the BBC website, rather than some definitive work.....
I like to think of myself, as Elite, sub class 'Dangerous'
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I'm going with my Grandpa's classification:
"If you work with your hands in clothing made for the job - you're working class. If you sit on your arse most of the day and go home as clean as you started, you're middle class. If you tell people sitting on their arse, to tell people working with their hands what to do, you're posh."
Charles E Torr.
It's a 'bit of fun' that helps reinforce social boundaries though, in a time when society is becoming increasingly fractured and divided.
I have neighbours who look down on other neighbours, because although they may be in a similar income/wealth bracket, the first group do not accept the second as 'true' middle class. They feel threatened by the johnny-come-lately interlopers, who they believe will devalue their own status. Snobbishness is rampant amongst the insecure.
Snobbishness is rampant amongst the [s]insecure[/s] British.
FIFY
Traditional class identification is often easiest using language as a test - do you say loo or toilet? Sitting room or lounge? Pudding or Dessert?
Technical Middle.
Quelle surprise.
