Consider yourself a bit of a fancy pants?
Prefer Salvador Dali to Cold Chisel? Cronuts over chiko rolls?
Now, there is a quiz to show you exactly which social class you belong to – based on who you socialise with, your hobbies and your assets.
We, as a nation, are far less obsessed with social classes than many other countries. But ANU academics Dr Jill Sheppard and Dr Nicholas Biddle wanted to find out whether social classes actually did exist in Australia.
The ABC reports that after surveying 1200 Australians, they discovered there are five different classes:
The established working class: have the lowest household incomes and social and cultural capital, and their parents have jobs with low occupational prestige.
The established middle class: are about average in terms of household incomes, social and cultural capital and their parents’ occupational prestige (they also follow in their parents’ occupational footsteps).
The mobile middle class: come from middle class families but have higher educational qualifications, so report higher incomes, assets and social capital.
The emerging affluent class: have used their education to increase their household income and have high social and cultural capital, with both parents holding prestigious occupations. But they reported fewer savings and property assets.
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Load of rubbish of course. The researchers were supposed to be discovering IF there were social classes in Australia not where one might fit in. Any "classy" Australian simply puts others or themselves into one of two classes- "Honest and Hardworking" or "Lazy Bastard."
Load of rubbish of course. The researchers were supposed to be discovering IF there were social classes in Australia not where one might fit in. Any "classy" Australian simply puts others or themselves into one of two classes- "Honest and Hardworking" or "Lazy Bastard."