Why and How are people classed

[suzie1]

High class

Low class

medium class

Are they classed on the amount of money they have?

Would you say katie price is high class?

Sorry, but i cannot understand this class thing, please enlighten me?

[funnygirl]

If you have to go to work in order to live, then you are medium class I would say.

Lower classes don't work and cannot even afford to live!!!

[suzie1]

so i would be medium class then, i work for a living and i feel so proud saying it. So who is high class

[sara3]

working class

[funnygirl]

The Queen!, the Tories!

[askyourgran]

But surely you can't call Katie Price high or medium class she might have some money but I don't think her morals or way of life is up to class.

[Prudie]

Class has nothing to with money Katie Price being a prime example (imo). Low class does not mean the same as working class either.

[smurfchops]

I think it is working class, middle class, upper class.

Working class means in my eyes, in the olden days, people working down the pits etc. Middle class means blue collar workers, . office workers, managing directors etc. Upper class means aristocracy, i.e. leeches living off daddy's money.

Jordan is lower than lower class and always will be i.e. a Number One Chav with the mouth of a toilet.

[suzie1]

exactly gran, thats what got me so confused when she talks she sounds chavvy, so how can she be medium or high class.and she isnt low class, so where does she come in

[smurfchops]

i.e. big and wet and everyone's been in there....

[smart1]

Class is decided not by the fact you work - hence we would all be working class. My understanding is that if you work, but parents have an alternative income ie trusts,bonds, etc - Middle class
If yer parents came from a priveleged background (MONEY already in place) - Upper class
Sad, but true.

[boxtops]

The expressions are usually upper class, middle class, lower class (working class). In days gone by the work status was often a good indicator - upper class people often had money "through the family". middle class people were managers and white collar workers, lower class were the blue-collar working class, and patterns of education could be followed through (public/private school, sixth form, comprehensive etc.). Nowadays the boundaries are much more blurred, a middle-class person is just as likely to be on the dole as anyone else. Katie Price is not high class, she's not an aristocrat - being famous doesn't mean you move up a class. There are many upper-class people that none of us have ever heard of, and many of them these days are as hard up as the rest of us. I worked with a woman who was a Lady, and apart from speaking better than me, she mucked in with the rest of us.

[askyourgran]

Dunno Suzie1 in my day we said they were as common as muck thats lower than low class.

[smart1]

Good answer BT!

[mrs_overall]

If you get the chance, read a brilliant book on the subject by Jilly Cooper, called "Class"

It explains about the different classes, including lower middle, middle middle, upper middle and upper class. The lower class are divided into the respectable and the scum.
One thing in the book I found interesting was how much in common the working class have with the aristocracy, such as a keen interest in horseracing, dogs, wearing flat caps etc

[society]

There's an old movie called High Society starring Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly. See if you could put your hand on it, look at it.

[tamborine]

bit like the caste system only more considerate and transient.