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Contemporary British Societies - PDF

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3Contemporary British societies....................................................................................................3Middle class in British Society....................................................................................................4How important is middle class in British Society today..............................................................5Change in the status and role of British middle class..................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION.Middle class is a social group that exists between working and working class which mayinclude business and professional people and their families. It is the class of people which is inthe middle of social hierarchy and it is commonly referred with the term “Middle Class”. Middleclass in Britain consists of people who are born into the families which traditionally possessedmedium levels of income, this group is defined more by the job and income (Parry and Parry,2018). In Britain there are about 25% of middle people living in the British societies. Middleclass people are engaged in wide variety of occupations but most of them are professionals inpublic services and even hold managerial jobs. Middle class people live throughout Britain andalso most of them live outside the large towns and forms the vital part within the different Britishsocieties. MAIN BODYContemporary British societiesSocial structure of Britain has historically been influenced through the concept of socialclass which has been continuously been affecting British societies at present. British society likevarious societies of the world has divided in hierarchically in the system which involveshereditary transmission of social status, occupation as well as political influence (Ingham, 2016).From the period of industrialisation this system has been in the constant state of revisions andnew factors has been added to these classes other than birth. At present British societies can bedivided as follows: Under class: Under class people are those people who are unemployed and have beenunemployed for generations and these are the people who do not work at all. Working Class: Working class people can be divided into two categories such as unskilled,semi-skilled and skilled class. People who go to work in semi-skilled and unskilled jobs on theassembly lines and machines shops like steel mills, coal mines, car factories, textile mills etc arereferred as semi-skilled and unskilled working class people in Britain. In England there has beendecline in the manufacturing sector and there has been increase in service sector which hasresulted in low paid working class. The people who work in skilled industrial jobs like inmanufacturing or construction jobs refers to skilled working class.Middle class: Middle class people can be divided into various categories such lower middleclass, middle middle class and upper middle class (Cole, 2018). British lower middle class
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