Poll: What Class are You ?

[Zip]

I'm Australian, so this whole "class" thing doesn't mean much to me.

Under malc's classification I fall into category #2: "white collar middle class" (albeit with two houses, not one).

I can tell you there are different classes down here from what ive seen.

Although they all mingle with each other quite well and sometimes you cant tell what class is what untill you stay at there house for awhile

 

[BrightonBelle]

I never considered myself as Middle Class

I love Malc's World!

BB x

 

[SlyReaper]

I don't ft into any of them. White collar job, but renting and have a tatty old car.

 

[Andre]

I was in what you class as "Upper Class" - but got out of the City when I was fourty.

Paid everything off (not that there was much!) and now quite happily do a job I enjoy for a wage I can live on...and enjoy Life a lot more

 

[Lil old me]

Their is another class "benefit class" people that have never worked and lived of benefits, plenty of them about.

You mean the political class?

 

[OLDPHART]

Class of it's Own > retired.

 

[platypus]

You mean the political class?

Given that most of them are lawyers or doctors or from whatever professional background you care to mention, your glib comment kinda falls flat.

 

[ironman]

As pointed out by many, the original post is wrong in many ways. In true Fox fashion, this is a discussion forum so it's valid to discuss. In the more accurate sense, I am middle class as I am educated to a high level and due to occupation. The OP definitions would make my family Upper Class but that's just not true because of the historical background of the term. If you really wanted to gauge an accurate analysis of the ocuk population you should have asked for peoples socio-economic classifications, the age of peoples cars has nothing to do with anything. I don't own my own car yet I am middle class.

 

[Azagoth]

Class of '72 baby!

 

[Hatter The Mad]

4. Working class, But I own Everything I have & owe nobody nothing.

/me gets coat

 

[Adsta]

I know a guy that that works as a contractor - his profession is a buildier. Yet he is worth 3.5 million he owns 4 houses and yet he drives an old escort

So where the heck does he fit in

 

[Hatter The Mad]

I know a guy that that works as a contractor - his profession is a buildier. Yet he is worth 3.5 million he owns 4 houses and yet he drives an old escort

By malc's definition, nothing or "A class of his own"

By sensible definition, middle class

 

[Bubo]

If only the OP had said "Which of these groups does your circumtances most approximate to" instead of using the 'C' word, he might have got some useful data from this thread. Whatever it is he plans to do with that data, can't say its exaclty going to be to MORI poll standards. Or is it similar to Spie's "Let me just make a note of how much do you earn" thread?

 

[Lysander]

By sensible definition, middle class

Why is that? Manual labour is always thought of as working class [hence the name - ask a Communist].

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Why is that? Manual labour is always thought of as working class [hence the name - ask a Communist].

Because he owns an estate (effectively), multiple properties and with so much capital could easily sustain himself from the passive wealth generated just by having his wealth.

 

[Lysander]

Because he owns an estate (effectively), multiple properties and with so much capital could easily sustain himself from the passive wealth generated just by having his wealth.

Wealth is not an indicator of class. Are the Beckhams middle class? Is a chav who wins £10m on the lottery automatically middle class? Conversely, is a prince out of money automatically working class? No, because class is a mindset and has nothing to do with wealth or material possession.

 

[Fusion]

Your class descriptions are laughable. Many upper class people drive older motors for a start, "old money" types don't always take delight in indulging in shiny new flash motors, same with middle class households too. In fact, vehicle age doesn't say a massive amount- there are many working class households who have new motors on finance.

 

[Manlove is my forte]

The Both the Builder and the Beckhams would be Nouveau Riche, which is a Class between Middle Class and Upper Class, for people that have made significant Class movement through their lives either via hard work, entrepreneurship or celebrity status, but retain most if not all of their previous classes social behaviors.

 

[Lysander]

The Both the Builder and the Beckhams would be Nouveau Riche, which is a Class between Middle Class and Upper Class, for people that have made significant Class movement through their lives either via hard work, entrepreneurship or celebrity status, but retain most if not all of their previous classes social behaviors.

Good God, that's a very old expression. Nouveau Riche isn't a class though, is it? It's just a state.

Excellent name, by the way.

 

[Manlove is my forte]

Hi there,

Socio-economic groupings would prove a far better way of discussing all this, but meh.

I'm a student, so don't really fit anywhere in Malc's world... my maternal grandfather was a civil engineer and my maternal grandmother was a secretary to a solicitor, but I lived with my mother on a council estate (although she was a speech therapist back in the day). My paternal grandfather was a train driver and my paternal grandmother a nurse, but my father has done okay (retiriing now, but was a head teacher). Sooooooo I'm not sure how to classify myself ;s.

Middle Class.

As a student you inherit your Class from your parents. A Headmaster is a Middle class occupation (possibly upper middle class)

If you graduate from Uni you will probably never be below middle-class regardless of occupation (though you will be classed as lower middle class if you do manual labor)

There are a lot of factors that make up your position in the class system amongst them are Education (and quality of establishment), social network (what are their class level), occupation and title.