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Post by tangent on Apr 3, 2013 19:35:59 GMT
The BBC has a class calculator that puts you in one of the following classes: - 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
I'm not convinced it has put me in the right class, but it's an interesting test. So which class to you belong to? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2013 19:55:09 GMT
I come up established middle class.
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Post by Miisa on Apr 3, 2013 20:07:45 GMT
Traditional working class.
Not that it was easy to answer the last few questions, as I don't know anyone except my co-workers and family, and only leave home to go to work...
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Post by ceptimus on Apr 3, 2013 20:11:12 GMT
Traditional working class.
The test, and the categories, smell of bullshit to me.
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Post by Miisa on Apr 3, 2013 20:21:21 GMT
I am a little confused about the class system categorization, I had been under the impression that it is quite extensively an inherited class system, difficult to move around in during one's lifetime? It could just be the brevity and lack of depth in the questions, but it seems that the economic status (very dependent on possibly temporary factors, or ones outside one's control) has a little too high a focus.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Apr 3, 2013 21:13:31 GMT
Traditional working class. The test, and the categories, smell of bullshit to me. I disagree, I think this is as accurate a class profile of the UK in the 2010s as you are likely to get. It's not 100% but it is fairly close. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 3, 2013 21:34:33 GMT
Established middle class for me.  |
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Post by jayme on Apr 3, 2013 21:39:10 GMT
Precariat.
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Post by Miisa on Apr 3, 2013 21:42:05 GMT
When I calculated it with what it was when I was married, it counted me as established middle class, so it is my single-income/single parent household that drops me to working class. That is what I mean by varying circumstances.
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Post by tangent on Apr 3, 2013 22:05:59 GMT
It told me I was elite, much to my surprise.
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Post by Shake on Apr 4, 2013 4:34:04 GMT
Well, after finding a decent currency converter (to figure out the dollars-to-pounds exchange), I came out as established middle class.
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 4, 2013 10:24:04 GMT
I am probably elitist though... |
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Post by bill on Apr 4, 2013 10:58:59 GMT
Traditional working class apparently.
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Post by tangent on Apr 4, 2013 11:12:13 GMT
Not that it was easy to answer the last few questions, as I don't know anyone except my co-workers and family... Forum members? |
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Post by Kye on Apr 4, 2013 11:15:08 GMT
I'm an emergent service worker. Whatever that is.
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Post by Mari on Apr 4, 2013 19:53:20 GMT
Me too. I dropped several classes to poor because I don't own a house. Which is ridiculous, because technically I could buy a house.
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Post by Mari on Apr 4, 2013 19:55:48 GMT
Heh, if I bought a house, I'd go up 4 classes to established middle class.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Apr 4, 2013 21:00:52 GMT
Also - it is age dependent, unless you have hods of inherited wealth, forty thousand acres of West Loamshire, for instance, your income and your social range inevitably decline as you get older ... e.g. the solicitor you used to know has now passed away, so reducing your social capital (but not hers).
Culturally inappropriate for Mordor.
I would come out as technical middle class but am really of traditional working class heritage ... although if I used the data appropriate to my being a Clerk in Holy Orders I would probably come out as established middle class. Next week, who knows ...
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Post by tangent on Apr 4, 2013 22:09:30 GMT
The company I used to work for made me redundant without realising they would be paying a sizeable sum of redundancy money into my bank account in exchange for a smaller pension. I'm no better off in the long run but I reckon it's pushed me up a class or two.
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Post by juju on Apr 5, 2013 10:33:18 GMT
I came out as 'New Affluent Worker' apparently based on the fact that I own my own home, listen to Indie music and go on Facebook. What a load of bollocks. And shame about the 'affluent' part - that couldn't be less true.  |
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Post by Moose on Apr 5, 2013 16:24:49 GMT
I am a prole. Tho apparently I am unusual in having a high level of education and having been known to set foot inside the odd stately home.
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