What social class are you? (Poll)
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View Poll Results: What social class are you?
Underclass 46 3.09% Working Class 307 20.65% Lower Middle Class 296 19.91% Middle Class 442 29.72% Upper Middle Class 197 13.25% Upper Class 23 1.55% Royalty 84 5.65% I do not believe in the concept of social class 92 6.19%
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)I went to uni (graduate this year) but I was born working class and had a working class upbringing. I still live in the same area - nothing has changed, I don't even have a job yet - I just have an education. I don't know, I don't think you can change class just by going to uni or earning a lot of money. It's to do with your upbringing, at least in my opinion.(Original post by py0alb)
Regardless of your parents' class, if you went to university you are now middle class as a minimum.
I would feel very uncomfortable to call myself middle class since I don't feel there is anything wrong with being working class and I don't feel like I need to move up the 'class ladder'. -
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)Denial ain't just a river in Egypt(Original post by Origami Bullets)
Yes, but on the other hand one parent is long term unemployed, the other is in a job that pays only marginally more than minimum wage, something which is more commonly associated with the working / under class.
My parents didn't pay for my education, and the flying lessons cost £6.50 each. And I'm quite well aware that being a TU member doesn't make you working class
- it's just that I suspected that that's where you'd got the idea that I'm a champagne socialist from.
The point is that there are various contradictory factors in my background which mean that I find it difficult to pigeonhole myself into one class or another. -
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)In terms of upbringing, education and social standing (friends, relatives, people I associate with) I'm straight down the middle. However, where I live currently, and my current employment, would sit firmly in "working class". Well, the street that I live on definitely - the people I work with seem to be scattered between working and lower-middle - so it's not ENTIRELY a working class working environment.
I've voted "middle", though, because class (if you believe in it) has nothing to do with where you "are currently" in life and even less to do with how much you have in the bank - it's entirely inherited, in upbringing, and attitudes. Middle class people (especially with the economy as it is) can easily find themselves relying on some benefits if their luck turns bad - but they certainly don't suiddenly morph into "underclass people". Likewise, distinctly working class people, often entrepreneurs, can become multi-millionaires. They remain working class. Some professional footballers are a good example here; they have ridiculous amounts of money in the bank, but are often from working class (or even underclass) backgrounds and still demonstratably have working class values. -
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)My family is working class, but many of my cousins and myself are first generation going to university so I guess we're striving for Middle class
and personally I have pretty much all the aspirations in the link OP provided on Wiki about a middle class person.
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)Working class. My mum has worked as a sales assistant for the past 25 years, but my step-dad has a middle-class job in "elf n safety" after doing loads of unskilled jobs for years. I don't think your job necessarily dictates which social class you belong to, it's also your attitudes and lifestyle.
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)Lower middle.
One of my parents has a degree and is now in a well paid job. We also live in quite a nice area.
But this has only happened recently in my family. My grandparents generation were really quite poor on fathers side and about average on my mothers. -
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)I am the most middle class person anybody could hope to meet. My parents have a house with a mortgage and two cars, my dad is a middle manager and my mother is a housewife, and they met whilst attending Oxford University. I go to Warwick, play two musical instruments and like hummus.
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)Awkward..(Original post by Cumquat)
I would like to say i am royalty but my nan Elizabeth hides me from the media as i am an "embarrassment to the family". My dad Phillip is a nice guy but goes down on my nan a bit too much. Me and my brothers Will and Harry get up to mischief in the garden and play pranks on nan. Once Harry moonied the butler. it was soooo funny. -
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)(Original post by py0alb)
The working class are by definition respectable by dint of having jobs.
You can see the various differences as being:
underclass:
permanent dole seekers/homeless
working class:
respectable blue collar manual workers, possibly council housing, no university education
lower middle class:
state school to university - possibly first in family, decent white collar job
upper middle class:
family wealth, private school, few generations of university, good white collar job
upper class:
serious family wealth, "top" private school, too rich to really bother working. job is seen more as a hobby.
Obviously there are exceptions to the rule and the lines are very blurred, but this is as reasonably accurate a set of general guidelines as you will find.
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)(Original post by Bhumbauze)
In terms of upbringing, education and social standing (friends, relatives, people I associate with) I'm straight down the middle. However, where I live currently, and my current employment, would sit firmly in "working class". Well, the street that I live on definitely - the people I work with seem to be scattered between working and lower-middle - so it's not ENTIRELY a working class working environment.
I've voted "middle", though, because class (if you believe in it) has nothing to do with where you "are currently" in life and even less to do with how much you have in the bank - it's entirely inherited, in upbringing, and attitudes. Middle class people (especially with the economy as it is) can easily find themselves relying on some benefits if their luck turns bad - but they certainly don't suiddenly morph into "underclass people". Likewise, distinctly working class people, often entrepreneurs, can become multi-millionaires. They remain working class. Some professional footballers are a good example here; they have ridiculous amounts of money in the bank, but are often from working class (or even underclass) backgrounds and still demonstratably have working class values.
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)Lower middle I guess. Mums an accountant turned shop manager and dads a manager in a huge engineering firm. I'm going to a fairly good uni (top 15) so yeah, lower middle I guess. Although I do have a 'posh' accent according to most people.
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Re: What social class are you? (Poll)don't forget to tell us what proportion of TSR you're looking your nose at when you've finished(Original post by Aspiringlawstudent)
I thought it might be interesting to see which social class members of TSR think they belong to - so, what social class are you?
