What makes someone middle class?

Question

What makes someone middle class?

Answer 1

I simply see it as the people who are in between whose who are in poverty and are struggling to get by ( those who boarder line on poverty)which are supposedly lower class and the wealthy who are supposedly upper class...

The middle class, as I understand it, are the people who work to earn their living but make good money as to not be struggling so much as to pay bills and survive ............

Answer 2

What a silly question...you seriously need to get some life!

Answer 3

people richer and poorer than they are...

Answer 4

Their values, ethics, sense of humour, the area they live in, friends, type of employment and many more.

Answer 5

Someone who falls between the cracks of federal bureaucracies.  Middle class makes too much money to qualify for financial or educational grants, and they are not rich enough to step up to the next level of financial security on their own.  So the middle class always gets the shaft when it comes to federal programs and tax breaks.

Middle-classness is often synonymous with "white collar" middle management jobs, higher education (bachelor's and masters degrees), and higher leisure spending than low class families.

Then there is also the idea of "middle class" culture, norms, and values.

Answer 6

Nothing really, it's just a term, when you apply a meaning to it you give it a perceptual value.

"Nothing is good or bad thinking makes it so"

Answer 7

by default in many cases - neither being upper class nor working class. However there isn't much of the latter left, at least not in britain, yet many working class now claim to be middle class because they go to work in a suit!

Answer 8

their stupid brain

Answer 9

Thanks for the simple but brilliant question (you earned a star for it). It's like made to be answered by a social worker that I am.

The middle class, in colloquial usage, consists of those who have some economic independence but not a great deal of social influence or power. The term often encompasses merchants and professionals, bureaucrats, and some farmers and skilled workers.

Social hierarchies and their definitions vary. There are many factors that can define the middle class in a society, such as money, behaviour and heredity. In many countries, it is predominantly the amount of money that determines an individual's position in the social hierarchy. In other countries, social factors may have as strong an influence. These factors include education, professional or employment status, home ownership, or culture.

Connotations attached to the term also vary significantly between and within different countries. In the United States of America and Canada, usage is increasingly broad in scope, but almost always positive in intent (see American middle class).

==> Edit: I wonder what stupid mother ****** put those thumbs down - not only with me but with everybody that answered seriousely here. I suppose it's someone who doesn't have the slightest clue what sociology is about. We hate ignorant people here, get lost or stay with mummy!

Answer 10

Wanting to be upper and definitely now lower.

Answer 11

their self

Answer 12

I would say that you are middle class if you have some level of disposible income for entertainment after covering all normal living expenses and maintaining a savings account sufficient to cover emergencies and your only significant debts are for durable goods like a house and a car.

Many poor people can live like they are middle class for a while because of easy credit, and many middle class people spend far more than they make and will end up broke.

Answer 13

middle class use elbaorated code full grammar language they earn around £65k a year and abouve they have 2 properties or 1 really nice one umm drive a porshe carrera.

they have a professional buisnes and a side buisness urr have a wife and kids wear a suit almost everywere. generally are wussys

Answer 14

A stick up their bum bum.