So what class are you in?

[alwaysmoody]

I see a lot of comments about social class "la di daaa"

So I'm curious to which class you would all place yourselves?

Honestly?

I'm from a LC background but I'm wealthy now from my own hard work and live in a MN area from what I've gathered (Chiswick) but I definitely don't fit in with these "mums" I still prefer having my friends from council estates in hounslow over

So what social classes are you from? And please be naice

Look at your poll card at Election time.

I am that weird hoarder type who keeps old polling cards. I've just checked the two most recent ones and there is no 'class indicator' on them.

There was on mine - and husband’s!
How odd.

Are you sure you're not mistaking some other code for a social indicator - like it says 'AB' because you live in Aberdeen, for example?

I'm definitely working class.

Apparently before Dp retired at Christmas we were elite. Now we are working class.

Definitely done on income as that is all that has changed.

There are definitely no social class indicator codes on anyone’s polling cards. What a ridiculous idea. That is a voter registration number.

I mean, do you think someone’s job involves looking up @Oliversmumsarmy’s husband’s retirement status and pension, shaking their head and demoting them to a lower class code?

DH and I are working class. We both work. We're both educated to degree level, we have a house, 2 cars, we have a comfortable standard of living and have a bit of money in the bank, but not tens of thousands.

I just don't understand why, in 2020, there is still a class system. We're not exactly going around doffing our caps to the gentry these days.

Underclass

TheMemoryLingers

Are you sure you're not mistaking some other code for a social indicator - like it says 'AB' because you live in Aberdeen, for example?

Erm - quite sure! It’s not a postcode and anyway I don’t live in Aberdeen. Lol

MingVase indeed. What a pretentious username.

Does your class change if you marry a rich man?

P999 Wed 04-Mar-20 22:51:06
Underclass
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That made me laugh, P999.

I would have considered myself LMC but did the BBC thing and it seems I'm 'Established Middle Class'.

However there have been many times in the past when I have most certainly been underclass and felt it!

Class is not linked to money.

Does your class change if you marry a rich man?

No.

Does your class change if you marry a rich man?

No. And just because a man is rich does not mean he is necessarily a higher class. Footballers and their wives are a good example of this.

Class represents deep-seated values, attitudes, social connections, style of upbringing, style of communication, tastes, mannerisms, unspoken social cues, etc. Money facilitates the jump, but it usually takes a few generations for the rest to come naturally as an identity.

Does your class change if you marry a rich man

According to the BBC test yes it does

Then they are wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time, would it? The BBC is not the oracle of yesteryear.

The BBC test is utter nonsense, as amply evidenced by this thread.

MingVase tbf socologists/market researchers do that sort of thing a lot (though not using polling cards afaik )

I was brought up in the 1950s by a MC father who didn't inherit, and who died when I was young. We always had a phone, nice holidays and lived in a lovely area, but rented, so my DM struggled financially when she was widowed. My father was very invested in how I behaved, how I spoke. We didn't have a TV when they were growing in popularity, but we always had lots of books.

I can remember the term 'genteel poverty' which often referred to single, educated women with small private incomes. Class to me was as much about how one spoke, dressed and behaved as income. I prefer a tasteful, comfortable house belonging to someone with little money to an overly fussy, all things shiny show home which screams 'look how much we spent'.

Oliversmumsarmy Thu 05-Mar-20 10:31:24
Does your class change if you marry a rich man
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Hee hee, what a delightful thought (marrying a rich man, not necessarily changing class); a man marrying a rich woman could be equally applicable. I've never tried that :-) or even thought about money when I was young, maybe I got something wrong.

I think it is the children who will become more MC because they will have reaped the benefits of having more money in education and things they can take part in which poorer people cannot.

Chemistry right now. RE after lunch.

Tricky one.

Myself my mum's side is upper class though with them not being in the UK their status means very little here.

My mum married a working class man who was the first in the family to go to uni. I was given a humanistic upbringing and I guess a lot of the activities my parents signed me up for and the education I got could be seen as upper middle class (musuems on the weekend, ballet, opera, frequent theater visits, heavy emphasis on classical literature plus fluent and piano lessons till the age of 16) and I went to an international school in germany from the age of 6.

Fiancé comes from a middle class family but we share many of my interests that were influenced by my upbringing.

It is income where it gets tricky because income wise we are probably lower middle class etc we also enjoy pop culture as much as high culture so again it is a bit of a mix.

Asset wise because of me we would again be upper middle class so it seems very much a fluid jumble if that makes any sense

I was brought up to believe I was middle to upper middle class, but having read Jilly Cooper's book in class I realise my upbringing was distinctly lower middle class, my darling mum who can be a bit of a snob was very unimpressed when I told her