The Great British class calculator - post your results...
03 April 2013, 11:00 AM
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The Great British class calculator - post your results...
Found this on the BBC news website this morning - let the ***** waving commence!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973
03 April 2013, 11:16 AM
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I think they are trying to base your social group / general lifestyle on class.
Which you cant do IMHO.
Its all pointless anyway, because there is very little in the UK thats class based these days unless you are looking to get very specific jobs etc.
For 99% of people your class does not matter one jot.
Which you cant do IMHO.
Its all pointless anyway, because there is very little in the UK thats class based these days unless you are looking to get very specific jobs etc.
For 99% of people your class does not matter one jot.
03 April 2013, 11:17 AM
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Sounds about right 
Technical middle class
This is a small, distinctive and prosperous new class group. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Mix socially with people similar to themselves
Work in research, science and technical fields
Enjoy emerging culture such as going to the gym and using social media
Technical middle class
This is a small, distinctive and prosperous new class group. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Mix socially with people similar to themselves
Work in research, science and technical fields
Enjoy emerging culture such as going to the gym and using social media
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03 April 2013, 11:20 AM
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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"
Not sure this description applies though..
Not sure this description applies though..
03 April 2013, 11:30 AM
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Well I'm going to wave my little chap the most then...
As i am according to there site... Elite class
So chaps, feel free to address me as Sir from now on....
Tally ho
As i am according to there site... Elite class
So chaps, feel free to address me as Sir from now on....
Tally ho
03 April 2013, 11:46 AM
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03 April 2013, 11:59 AM
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Established middle class
This is the most gregarious and the second wealthiest of all the class groups. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Enjoy a diverse range of cultural activities
Went to university
Are comfortably off, secure and established
This is the most gregarious and the second wealthiest of all the class groups. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Enjoy a diverse range of cultural activities
Went to university
Are comfortably off, secure and established
03 April 2013, 12:01 PM
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Impreza - chariot of the middle classes by the look of it. I appear to be established middle class too. Who'd have thunk it? There must be more social diversity than this on Snet? My cultural background is what I'd describe as working class though.
03 April 2013, 12:38 PM
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03 April 2013, 12:55 PM
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Result: the class group you most closely match is:
Established middle class
This is the most gregarious and the second wealthiest of all the class groups. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Enjoy a diverse range of cultural activities
Went to university
Are comfortably off, secure and established
Although I never went to Uni!
Established middle class
This is the most gregarious and the second wealthiest of all the class groups. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Enjoy a diverse range of cultural activities
Went to university
Are comfortably off, secure and established
Although I never went to Uni!
03 April 2013, 12:56 PM
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03 April 2013, 01:22 PM
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To show my ignorance, how is class defined? Other than in a hokey online calculator?
From a money POV is it not whether you are on benefits, at work or financially independent?
If you work are you not automatically working class? I thought middle class was supposed to be those financially independent and then high class were those with titles?
From a money POV is it not whether you are on benefits, at work or financially independent?
If you work are you not automatically working class? I thought middle class was supposed to be those financially independent and then high class were those with titles?
03 April 2013, 01:27 PM
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Traditional working class
F**k
I think its mainly because "go to the pub" isn't down as a social activity...nor that most of my mates are in the trades/service sector.
(And I went to Uni
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Just tried it again with bit more open social/cultural details and it came up with "New affluent workers"
WTF!?!
F**k
I think its mainly because "go to the pub" isn't down as a social activity...nor that most of my mates are in the trades/service sector.
(And I went to Uni
)Just tried it again with bit more open social/cultural details and it came up with "New affluent workers"
WTF!?!
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03 April 2013, 03:26 PM
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30-40 years ago there were quite a few places "the working man" could not go. Several schools, various universities, many many different jobs, lots of social stuff like gents clubs or golf clubs etc.
Now - for 99% of it - money can buy you into almost all of it.
