What is middle class defined as in the UK?

Question

Is it your income? Your job description? Your lifestyle?
Or just an attitude?
What is middle class? Also what is working class?

Answer 1

middle class are basically "white collar workers" like shop managers, small business owners, moderatly well off, and live in owned property
Working class are "blue collar" workers, tradesmen, manuel workers, factory workers, etc, on the whole not well paid, mostly live in council houses, though not all
ALso you have upper class, and lower class, these 2 groups tend to have one thing in common, they dont make their own money, upper classes are born into it, lower class live off of benefits (welfare)

Answer 2

An occupation in the professions, solicitor, accountant usually means a middle class background. Artisans ie tradesmen like builders, ploners reflects the working class. The mistake made is that the working class means only those who work. Most classes work. Even the Royals have a sort of job. Many people from ordinary backgrounds also vecome solicitors, accountants and academics, so it's a very loose description anyway.

Answer 3

I believe the middle class in the UK is the working class. That is to say that it of course that the working class have an income range, job range, and lifestyle(attitude). So middle class is working class and it is described by all of the charachteristics of working class.

Answer 4

Upper class = Hereditary peers and royalty
Middle Class = People who are wealthy but aren't born into it, essentially professional groups such as merchants, doctors solicitors and other "White collar" workers.
Working Class = Those who rely on manual work or unskilled trades to earn a living, usually poorly paid.
It was defined as a tax band by the treasury at one point.

Answer 5

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