Poll: What Class are You ?

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What class are you?

  • Working Class

    Votes: 129 26.4%

  • White Collar Middle Class

    Votes: 218 44.7%

  • Upper Class

    Votes: 29 5.9%

  • A Class Of Its Own

    Votes: 112 23.0%
  • Total voters
    488
If you went to private school you are at least middle class.

If you went to a non fee paying school and grew up around immigrants you are working class.
 
p4radox said:
The whole thing depends on how you define class. As far as I can tell there are several ways to do this:

  • Job
  • Education
  • Area of residence/type of house
  • Title
  • Parents' education/job
  • Upbringing, accent, style
  • Possessions, car, bank balance, amount of investment

I'd probably call myself middle-class. My parents are both educated and I'm a student. But I have a pretty strong accent, went to a comprehensive school and have had a few pretty menial jobs in the past.
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im guessing here.. but are the definitions of class, in respect of this poll, not set out in the OP?

:)

anyway

1 here, duly voted
 
1 and 2 possibly. I come from working class stock although I have a professional manual job which requires much skill and training, I have a private home in a private estate and my car is three years old.

You forgot to add lower non-working class, who refuse to work although they seem to have more money than anyone else and live on a council estate which they have reduced to something that looks like it should be in Beirut. They drive new cars , commonly sporting disabled badges, which invariably have 'gti' on the rear. They claim for every penny thay can get from the DSS and bleed the system dry. The 'world owes me a living' brigade, commonly known as scum.
 
Meridian said:
And in all cases it's about 80% the job you do, 10% your education, and 10% your parents jobs.
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I would have said it's 50% uprbringing (parents) and 40% your education and 10% your job.

It's almost a given your job will be fitting if the first 2 criteria are met i.e. of high standard.

If Prince Charles became a bricky he would still be upper class.
 
Viper² said:
When I went to school, Middle-Class were Lawyers, Doctors, M.P.s, Bank managers, etc.
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More likely they still are middle-upper class. Just not upper class. Besides there was never any comprehensive universal definition of classes, its always been a hodge podge of wealth, education and background even when you were in school. The class names are funny "upper - middle - . . . working!".

aproctor said:
If Prince Charles became a bricky he would still be upper class.
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Maybe, working upper class? There is something oxymoronish* about that previous sentence.

*I'm aware its not a word.
 
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Man i go out and be sociable for one day! and i miss out on some of the most interesting threads of the year! (this and the political manefesto one)

Anyway im in the nice "post structuralist" therory that class means nothing this day and age therefore im a class of my own (i preffer to reffer to it as the super awesome class)

Of course after the tutorial on class back last winter when we were discussing marx i went along as middle class based more on marx's definitions (and not my own or the rest of NI's seeing as me and NI along with Marx all have different ideas to whats important)
 
aproctor said:
If Prince Charles became a bricky he would still be upper class.
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Yes, because he has a title. To be fair, I should have said that it's 80% the job you do if you don't have a hereditary title. Inherit a title and you are upper class, even if the title is all you have.


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pingwing said:
Man i go out and be sociable for one day! and i miss out on some of the most interesting threads of the year! (this and the political manefesto one)
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:cool:

There are still some excellent debaters amongst us. :cool:
 
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