The British class system is becoming more polarised between a prosperous elite and a poor ‘precariat’
Savage, M.
(2013).
The British class system is becoming more polarised between a prosperous elite and a poor ‘precariat’.
(2013).
The British class system is becoming more polarised between a prosperous elite and a poor ‘precariat’.
Mike Savage discusses the results of the largest British class survey ever conducted. It shows that class divisions remain very powerful and are becoming more entrenched. There is a growing gulf between the elite and the lower classes, and what used to be termed the middle and working classes seem to be splintering into social classes with systematically differing amounts of cultural and social capital.