What social class am I?

Teachers are definitely in the middle class:
- all graduates and many postgraduates (PGCE or above)
- hold a professional qualification/there is a professional qualification for the profession (eg QTS)
- overall decent salary, and a high entry salary
- decent academic background
- as a profession has professional associations and learned societies
- has a professional code of conduct and could have license revoked

Compared these to other recognised middle-class professions:

Accountants (auditors):
- not necessarily graduates, and very few postgradutes
- most don't hold the professional qualification/there is a professional qualification for the profession (ie CPA)
- overall decent salary, but lower than teachers', especially at entry level
- decent academic background - as a profession has professional associations and learned societies - has a professional code of conduct and could have license revoked

Bankers: - not necessarily graduates, and very few postgraduates - most don't hold the professional qualification/there are professional qualifications but very uncommon (eg CFA) - overall decent salary, but depends on what kind of banker - varied academic background - as a profession has professional associations and learned societies - in some lines of work there is a professional code of conduct and in certain lines of work could have license revoked

Doctors: - all graduates but not many postgraduates - hold a professional qualification/there is a professional qualification for the profession - overall decent salary, and a high entry salary - decent academic background - as a profession has professional associations and learned societies - has a professional code of conduct and could have license revoked

Lawyers: - all graduates but depending on the country may or may not have postgraduate qualifications - hold a professional qualification/there is a professional qualification for the profession (however a law degree doesn't give you that) - overall decent salary, but a low entry salary - decent academic background - as a profession has professional associations and learned societies - has a professional code of conduct and could have license revoked

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But the nature of your profession is only a part of your class identity. The actual money you earn, the house you rent/purchased, your family background, your ancestry, your accent, your schooling background all through university, your connections, your peers, your other achievements, etc.

if she stops going to work, she stops getting paid.

I don't subscribe to it but this is the Marxist understanding of who falls into which class, and the definition MangoFreak has said she is using. On the Marxist analysis the middle and upper classes own the means of production and enjoy the rentier benefits of that.

Out of curiousity, which would you say I am? My parents recently separated and I live with my mum, I think my dad earns around £50k as a quantity surveyor and my mum doesn't work so her income is maintence and benefits. Neither of my parents have a proper degree and I go to a state school. So most of that seems working class but everyone in my family is educated and knowledgeable about things like literature, history and politics, my parents read The Times and we definitely have more of a middle-class way of thinking. Plus my grandma on one side was headmistress of a school and my granddad on the other got an MBE. I feel like we're a bit of both, but I feel more working class whilst my mum insists we are middle class.

Out of curiousity, which would you say I am? My parents recently separated and I live with my mum, I think my dad earns around £50k as a quantity surveyor and my mum doesn't work so her income is maintence and benefits. Neither of my parents have a proper degree and I go to a state school. So most of that seems working class but everyone in my family is educated and knowledgeable about things like literature, history and politics, my parents read The Times and we definitely have more of a middle-class way of thinking. Plus my grandma on one side was headmistress of a school and my granddad on the other got an MBE. I feel like we're a bit of both, but I feel more working class whilst my mum insists we are middle class.

erm working class isn't to do with that all middle class people would stop being paid if they stop going to work

What would you say I am? I attend a RG uni studying English Literature, family home is roughly £600,000 - both my mum and dad are educated although they haven't used their degrees and now own a successful business

What would you say I am? I attend a RG uni studying English Literature, family home is roughly £600,000 - both my mum and dad are educated although they haven't used their degrees and now own a successful business

lower class

lol, I know I'm not lower class. I am just asking in terms of middle / upper class.

If you read what I wrote I meant a teacher is middle class but not as middle class as a doctor, lawyer, banker, or dentist etc.

no, ur definitely lower class sorry

how can a doctor be working class, A teacher isn't really middle class but probably still is as you need a degree. Working class is like hairdresser mechanic plumber shelf stacker office admin

Middle / Upper middle class.

B - C1 / Group 2 - 4

"Working class" is far below middle, not sure how you can consider anyone working class if they went to a university.

When you graduate and find yourself a graduate level job, you won't be working class anymore.

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any reasoning behind this? or are you simply jealous?