SOCIAL CLASSCulture and Civilization

SOCIAL CLASS IN UNITED KINGDOM

Today the British society is still divided in social clases. There are the working class, the middle class and the upper class.

To determinate these groups there are some important factors like birth, occupation, inheritance or education, for example.

The importance of the language plays a big role in the social class system. The upper class has their own kind of speech and middle class trying to imitate them because of the fear of being looked dowm upon.

SOCIAL CLASS IN UNITED KINGDOM

The upper class

The middle class

The working class

THE WORKING CLASS• They live in terraced house, often a council house close to their

neighbours and mix easily with coloured people.

• They separate themselves from the other groups.

• Their children do mostly not care about education.

• They spend their money for themselves, in their clothes and to fix their cars.

• They are located in the north of British, in Sunderland.

THE MIDDLE CLASS

You can divide the middle class in new middle class and in traditional middle class, both are located in south of British.

• The new middle class is located in King Hill, a new development of executive housing.• They are characterized by their brand-led taste.• They are willing to demarcate themselves from the working class taste. • Young people want to move into this new middle class.• They are worried about dressing well and bring fashion cars but they don`t

like to show the Brand. • Their home are decorated with modern furniture but they haven`t a

excessive decoration.

• The traditional middle class is located in Tunbridge Wells.• They have a obsessive taste for organic food and gastropubs to vintage

furniture. • All of their taste share an emotional undercurrent, a buring desire to show

what good people they are.• For the middle class in particular, taste is a moral issue.

THE MIDDLE CLASS

THE UPPER CLASS

• The upper class are usually know by their large amounts of property.

• They are located in south of British, in Gloucestershine.

• They haven`t a lot of money, they are rich for their bequests.

• Their main hobby is the hunting.

UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE SAN ANTONIO DE MURCIA

BY:

JOSÉ LUÍS GÓMEZ PÉREZ

ALBERTO MONTALBÁN GARCIA

RAQUEL SÁNCHEZ PÉREZ

NOELIA CÁMARA GAMBÍN