Social Class - What are you?

[Jazz]

Seen this on the news earlier.

'Traditional British social divisions of upper, middle and working class seem out of date in the 21st Century, no longer reflecting modern occupations or lifestyles.


The BBC teamed up with sociologists from leading universities to analyse the modern British class system. They surveyed more than 161,000 people and came up with a new model made up of seven groups.'

I have mixed opinions on social class systems, I don't like the stereotypes it brings with each class but i do like the way it is used in government (e.g taxes - working class: lesser taxes, upper class: upper taxes etc and the use of benefits).

Heres a quick calculator thing BBC had posted to get your results on the new class system: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973
Also there is the original research test here: https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/class/

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My Quick Test was:

Emergent service workers


This class group is financially insecure, scoring low for savings and house value, but high for social and cultural factors. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:


- Are young
- Enjoy a cultured social life
- Rent their home - almost 90%

My experiment results were:

You scored 60/100 for economic capital
Your financial resources are about the same as the average person in the UK. Find out more below.


You scored 100/100 for social capital
Your social network is wider than the average person in the UK. Find out more below.


You scored 100/100 for cultural capital
Your range of cultural interests is broader than the average person in the UK. Find out more below.

I think its quite an interesting subject, as the class system has been labelled down in history for centuries.

[Kardan]

I got 'New affluent workers', but I must say the class system is lost on me...

[Kyle]

I ticked Chief executive on people you know socially because I spoke to paul lafontaine on twitter

Established middle class, apparently. Interesting how they've incorporated sociocultural factors as well as the traditional economic It's not exactly accurate though since I'm in a different class to my family and if I edit the financial stuff to me personally then I'm traditional working class.

[Jazz]

I ticked Chief executive on people you know socially because I spoke to paul lafontaine on twitter

Established middle class, apparently. Interesting how they've incorporated sociocultural factors as well as the traditional economic It's not exactly accurate though since I'm in a different class to my family and if I edit the financial stuff to me personally then I'm traditional working class.

I think i did the same actually . Yeah, it is really interesting. I like this new class system, but its a lot simpler with the standard 3

[Pigperson]

Established Middle Class although the part where you tick what kind of people you socialise with, I didn't know to what degree it means lol.

Will

[wixard]

Emergent service workers

This class group is financially insecure, scoring low for savings and house value, but high for social and cultural factors. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

• Are young
• Enjoy a cultured social life
• Rent their home - almost 90%

[buttons]

me and my family are low working class through and through and im not ashamed to admit it like many others.

YOUR RESULTS


You scored 43/100 for economic capital
Your financial resources are about the same as the average person in the UK. Find out more below.


You scored 70/100 for social capital
Your social network is wider than the average person in the UK. Find out more below.


You scored 20/100 for cultural capital
Your range of cultural interests is narrower than the a

Well that's not surprising

and

Result: the class group you most closely match is:


Traditional working class


This class group scores low for economic, social and cultural factors, but they do have some financial security. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:


Own their own home
Are older
Tend to mix socially with people similar to themselves

[Inseriousity.]

Traditional working class

This class group scores low for economic, social and cultural factors, but
they do have some financial security. According to the Great British Class
Survey results, lots of people in this group:

• Own their own home
  
• Are older
  
• Tend to mix socially with people similar to themselves

Not ashamed to admit it either.

[FlyingJesus]

My family did this yesterday and my mum/stepdad got new affluent workers but I got established middle class which is like 2 stages different or something, the whole thing is pretty ridiculous though since it basically equates having a wide taste in music to being a lord

[Martin]

Precariat

This is the poorest and most deprived class group. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

• Tend to mix socially with people like themselves
• Come from a working class background
• Rent their home - over 80%