Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Most of the time when people think of the word "class" they think money?
I always liked to think of class as the product of choices made. Choose well, and you have class. Choose poorly, you have little. But really it has more to do with ownership and activity. Working blue collar, living in rented accommodation and with your children in work after high school is working-class. White collar work with children in college/university and ownership of accommodation is somewhere around the middle-class bracket. These are loose examples, but give some understanding of how class is made up by society. The most important thing to remember about class is that it is a social construction and not something created by individuals, which is what my silly fantasy was about. It is decided for us by our circumstances, although you can obviously choose to do things which enhance or decrease your position within the class system.
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