MIDDLE CLASS

We're All Middle Class Now

We're All Middle Class Now

Introduction

The concept of middle class stems from the way in which society has sorted its citizens from positions of importance, influence, and prestige (Spybey, 1997, 67). There are occupations, which are perceived to be more popular and important, while others are classified as one demanding hard labor, or are monotonous are unpleasant by nature. In a number of cases, the roles of parent, teacher or volunteer may also fall under the middle class because of its distinct functions.

Many socialists propose a functionalist point of view in sociology and economics, which directly attribute social balances as essential to the preservation and sustainability of complex societies including the British society (Sakwa & Stevens, 2006, 34). The debate that the only encompassing phenomenon in the present world is the middle class has been going on for some time now. Different forces and elements play a significant role in this regard, shaping up the society in a way that the only existent class appears to be the middle class.

The paper aims at presenting a detailed analysis of the argument implying that almost all of us, if not all, belong to the stratifications from the middle class. The paper takes into account the factors that draw distinctions in the middle class and how changes in the world and economy have shaped this evolution.

Discussion

The industrial revolution is known as the period of change characterized by a significant break in Europe from the existing legacy systems. This period was marked by the bourgeois revolutions that occurred in general on this continent, and that marked the fate of modern history (Saunders, 1990, 67). The emergence of large factories gradually wiped out the large proportion of farmers and laborers to make way for a large industrial working class living in cities. A new world, the emergence of new forms of production, new gases, chemicals, metals and revolutionized it. A world took root, people began to choose other places to live, pests or because it was simple, thanks to different routes.

One should start seeing the middle class was formed, which is produced through a long historical process. In the beginning, there were two classes that ended in the middle class:

1) The farmers who were driven from the land they or their small properties, and

2) Domestic workers and craftsmen more or less independent.

A class is formed by the objective positions occupied by each person. In capitalism, a person who, does not own means of production, sell your capacity or labor in exchange for wages, occupies a defined position in the socioeconomic structure (Mitchell, 1991, 40). So very soon, different social groups were integrated into the middle class.

A person may fall under a certain middle class by way of inheritance. For instance, if your dad or mom have had higher status and relate to highly perceived cultural connotations by being part of new money, you are then by this precise way fall into a high ranked ...