Defining Social Class.

1. Defining Social Class. Dr Dominic Upton.

2. Ways of stratifying society • Sex • Occupation • Race • Class • Employment

3. Social stratification. • “Structured inequalities between different groups of people” • Historically: Slavery, Caste, Estates and Class. • Marx: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

4. Definition of social class. • “Segments of the population sharing broadly similar types and levels of resources, with broadly similar styles of living and (for some sociologists) some shared perception of their collective condition.”

5. Measurement techniques. • Subjective method. • Objective method: occupation, car ownership, unemployment, income, education and so on. • Registrar General’s Classification measure.

6. Registrar General’s Classification. • I Professional • II Intermediate • IIINM Skilled, Non-manual • IIIM Skilled, Manual • IV Partly skilled • V Unskilled

7. Socio-economic Groups. 1. Employers and managers in central and local government, industry, commerce- large establishments 2. Employers and managers in central and local government, industry, commerce- small establishments 3. Professional workers- self employed 4. Professional workers- employees 5. Intermediate non-manual workers 6. Junior non-manual workers 7. Personal service workers 8. Foremen and supervisors- non manual 9. Skilled manual workers 10. Semi-skilled manual workers 11. Unskilled manual workers 12. Own account workers (other than professionals) 13. Farmers- employers and managers 14. Farmers- own account 15. Agricultural workers 16. Members of the armed forces 17. Occupation inadequately described