What class are you?

A question about : What class are you?

Poll started 7 May 2013

It’s an old-fashioned concept, but still something that’s talked about. The aim is for you instinctively to say where you think you fit.

Which social class do you see yourself in?

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Best answers:

• Hmm It's a tricky decision, it's probably inbetween upper working class and lower middle class. But what defines 'class', is it education/type of work/where you live/how you live/how much money you have?
  I say lower middle class but I was brought up in a working class family. I'm educated to degree level, a skilled worker earning a decent wage with good future career prospects, living in a house share in London.
• Very tricky, I am a socialist from a working class background. University educated, professional with kids in independent school, own home on a council estate but earning well above the national average running a charity. I reckon i could tick upper working, lower middle or middle but on balance think most people would consider me middle class.
  Awww, how sweet is that?

• I've put myself as lower middle, as that's what I see myself as. Others might not agree.
  I'm a business owner, have a degree and I'd say I have relatively 'middle class' interests and tastes. We live in a decent neighbourhood, but we rent rather than own and we couldn't afford to buy for quite a few years.
  I do come from an underclass background.
• What defines a person as upper class, middle or lower? Education? Employment? Whether you've came from a background of money or grew up living on benefits? What type of clothes you wear? Serious question by the way.
• I was brought up in a typical working class environment but now I would describe myself as upper working class or perhaps lower middle class. Not 100% sure of the difference? Both I and my husband have degrees and our two daughters are currently at university. We have a 4 bed detached new build home BUT we are totally struggling financially due to redundancy etc but before that we both had professional management jobs. I feel like I have climbed the ladder but my husband has slipped down a peg or two as he was very definitely middle class as a child (went to boarding school, lived in Dubai, family had no money problems...)
• “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
  - Coco Chanel
  Well I do try
  “England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.”
  - George Orwell, Why I Write
  Need I say more
• “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
  - Coco Chanel
  Me too lizziebabe>
  I always wear red lipstick now and heels
• I'm in a class of my own
• What defines CLASS? I come from a typical working class family, I am educated and have a reasonable job with a good salary. I own my own house (paid for) by sheer hard work and determination! I have two cars and three children, all who have been brought up by myself! They all have savings accounts for their future and we have a good standard of living, no debts and we do have savings!!!! what class am I ? WORKING CLASS and very proud of it!!!
• House share and debt??? Sounds like working class to me!
• I think it's very sad to see that 140 people have voted themselves as "underclass".
  In my opinion there is no such class but I think this reflects on the media today and how they and this government are putting the message out that some people are worthless and that is wrong on every level.
  I am disappointed at all the classes listed in this question - when I grew up there was only upper, middle and working class - now it appears that there are far more and we must be becoming a very classist society. What a shame.
  This means the UK is becoming almost like India with the religion that has a caste system - I remember meeting a girl, many years ago, who told me about this system and belief and I found it horrifying that people could be made to live like that with no chance of getting out of it!
  Are we becoming like this in the UK? I so hope not as that doesn't make for a good, caring, compassionate society and we need to do more in the UK to change this.
• I find too many devisions and categories for class confuses the whole thing, what point are we really trying to make when we talk about class. I agree having 'upper' for everything and an 'underclass' is counterproductive. The idea of an 'underclass' is something created to demonise poor/working class/unemployeed people.
  If you google 'bristol afed class calculator' you can do a quick check which is far more straightfoward than the one the BBC did awhile back , and it cuts right to the heart of the matter with an economic definitiion of class.
  No definition is perfect, and you can make a million different classes and still have people who don't neatly fit into one or the other, but class is about power and thats what the above test analises.
  I consider myself working class in case you were wondering!
• In theory, everyone who's working could consider themselves working/upper working class. I'm a Police Sergeant, semi-detached house, can afford food, excursions and petrol (just)! I voted for upper working. I think it's all a state of mind and as usual, the media and society pressurises us to attain a status that isn't always achievable or affordable. The result, lots of debt and unhappiness :-/
• I always try and cling on to working class in these discussions. There are just too many middle class pointers though. I did that thing on the BBC website recently https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973
  and got between Techincal Middle Class and Established Middle Class depending how much I bent the truth.
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• I firmly believe I am working class - I come from a typical working class family, Dad was a factory worker, mum sewed stuff and sold it to up our income.
  Holidays were all in Ireland (I am from Ireland), lived in a rented house, drove old battered cars etc.
  I went to grammar school, university and have a professional qualification and now own my own house, and I have worked hard for everything I have - so that makes me working class. (Although my Children will be Middle Class - as I will hopefully be able to help the out with some savings etc in life)
  I think class is mainly about your background and how much you have given to you by family, or how much your family backround gives you opportunites etc.
  An acquintence of mine used to be annoyed that I thought I was working class when I had a good professional job (Evening though my earnings are not that high - or at least weren't back then), and claimed that she was working class because she didn't have a degree and worked in a call centre
  What she failed to realise (IMO) was that she had a house that was given to her by her parents, regular holidays to her father's apartment in Spain and her income topped up by her family. She had also went to University and dropped out so didn't take advantage of the opportunites she had, however still claimed that having a unskilled job made her working class.
  I am not bothered by class - and don't really car how people see me, but the girl kept telling me how lucky I was to have such a good job etc and how I was so priveleged to have had the opprtunuty to get a good job etc, it wasn't luck, it wasn't opportunity - it was sheer hard work.