The Great British class calculator - post your results...
 

Found this on the BBC news website this morning - let the willy waving commence!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973

Technical middle class.

Established middle class ...... where the f**k did it all go wrong? :lol1:

Established middle class.


It says "went to Uni" but I didn't Can't help feel that after "How much is your house worth" the other questions are ignored. :)

Established middle class

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.

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. "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..

Elite - I think that's only because we have a fair chunk of savings though.

Well I'm going to wave my little chap the most then...

As i am according to there site... Elite class :luxhello:

So chaps, feel free to address me as Sir from now on....

Tally ho :)

Really disagree with this - it may be slightly less visible nowadays, but class bias is still massively pervasive in our society, and not just in getting the top jobs.

Established middle class. Not that I would of considerd myself to be in that class so it must just purely be based on my earnings?

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

Technical Middle Class - hooraah!

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.

I'm established middle, always thought myself as working class TBH?

Well, apparently I am a New affluent worker. So much for prep school and public school :lol1: :)

It was Elite, then they found I drove an Impreza and changed it it Precariat.

you gonna start reffering to everyone here as plebs now?

hahahaha, speaking of which, is there a pleb class on it? lol

New Affluent Workers! :lol1:

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!

Years ago perhaps but most of us have moved on now ;)

Established Middle class...mmmm. I did not go to university though

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?

Traditional working class

F**k :mad:

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 :lol1: )

Just tried it again with bit more open social/cultural details and it came up with "New affluent workers"

WTF!?! :cuckoo:

New affluent workers, but I'm only 22 so that is probably about right anyway. Give me 10 more years till I'm in the elite class :lol1:

Technical middle class....FWIW...Put a this to a poll on this thread and put your results in.

Another technical middle class

Such as?

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.

What a load of utter rubbish.

That is all.