![]() ![]() ![]() However, I would still probably continue (for a while at least) to keep many of the values/beliefs/attitudes of the lower middle class. In other words, if I was raised in a lower middle-class background and suddenly found myself the winner of the Powerball Lottery, my financial status would push me into the higher classes (economically). However, I believe Fussell makes a good point in his book that it is difficult to erase all elements of the class one is born and rasied in. In the US, class movement is relatively easy compared to other societies (comtemporary and historical). How easy/difficult is it to move between classes?ĭepends on a given society. I don’t think it’s a matter of making a judgement based on initial impressions (although it’s not to say that people don’t do so). How do you identify a persons class when you meet them? So in understanding class more clearly one needs to incorporate other variables. Difficult in the sense that (in the US) as one examines the issue more closely, it appears that money/wealth isn’t always a reliable indicator. In the US at least, money/wealth seems to be the set criteria most people use in differentiating one class from another. ![]() Easy in the sense that I think many people have a general idea of what distinguishes one class from another. I think this one is both easy and difficult at the same time. What defines what “class” a person belongs to? ![]()
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