Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class—by occupation, income, or education—and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in ...

How middle class is your street? Is it perfectly posh – or ripe for gentrification? Enter your postcode to find out how middle class your street is. Class is hard to define, but education, jobs and ...

Despite her new title, U.S. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a pretty typical working-class New Yorker. She was born to Puerto Rican parents in the Bronx, has a few grand tucked ...

Steven Threadgold does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The first thing to say is that there are various ways of referring to class. Often, when people talk about class, they talk in terms of cultural/sociological labels. For example, middle-class people ...

What qualifies as working or middle class varies from region to region, but country-wide, a salary of $30,000–$90,000 qualifies a single individual as middle class, with incomes below that range ...

1. It is much easier to say what, according to Marxism, class is not than to say what class is. A class is not a group of individuals, specified by what they have in common (their income-level or life ...

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