The title of the article from de guardian is “no such thing as a classless society”, its writed by Chris Arnot, this article is based in the life of Anthony Heath who was a classmate of the prime minister Harold Wilson in a elitist school. The article is about the class society in United Kingdom and how this society changed in the last years.
In his younger years he studied with a lot of diferent people, and in several times he felt like an outsider. After that he came in a sociologyst and he is a specialyst in social studies like mobility class. He is one of the researcher who leads the projects and the investigation about attitudes and class behavior.
He and his workmates do a lot of research about class identity and the results of this investigation shows that the most of the people in the UK described themselves like working class, but the stadistics shows that is lest than in 1964. The people who described themselves like middle class rised until 37%, but the article says that there are huge inequalities in this category. Now the researchers are focus in look of the reasons of this inequality.
You can look the article here:
LINK:http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/07/class-influence-british-sense-identity
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Is very interesting you post, the article is very related whit the career. Personality I like a lot this subjects.
I thing that "the inequality" is a teme that is important for all society, because all people is involved.
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