Are you working class and proud of it?

[tinyjo]

Listening to the Today programme this morning I hear that apparently about 60% of people agree with the statement "I'm working class and proud of it". They had a couple of people on to discuss this, one of whom tried to define what it meant to be working class by suggesting that it was all about your family connections (he claimed Cherie Blair was working class because she lived close to her mum for childcare) in some nebulous fashion.

The whole thing struck me as rather odd. When I think of class, I tend to think of education at least for the lower 2 - nearly everyone who's been to university is at least middle class by the end of it while those people who never did any work then left after their GCSEs are generally working class.

So, what do you think?

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Comments

[squigglyruth.livejournal.com]

I may have misremembered, or missed (or forgotten) some detail of the method that explains it. I was paying more attention to the IQ-related content, since that was what I had to write an essay on. I'll have to look it up.

>>I tend to agree with Sonia
>I thought I was agreeing with Sonia, too?

I meant that I agree with Sonia that class is an odd concept - it just seems too simplified to me.