Middle class
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The Middle class is a social class - a "class of people intermediate between the classes of higher (upper class or aristocracy) and lower social rank or standing (working class); the social, economic, cultural class, having approximately average status, income, education, tastes, and the like. It is the the class traditionally intermediate between the aristocratic class and the laboring class."[1]
[mid-l-klas, -klahs] -- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: Origin: 1890-95. "Middle class" as a term first appeared in a 1745 pamphlet by James Bradshaw's called "Scheme to prevent running Irish Wools to France."[2]
Points about the Middle Class:
- Middle class is America's favorite socioeconomic group
- The median, or middle, household income in the United States today is $50,054 as of early 2013.
- Popular vision of middle class is rooted in 1950s, when a generation found solid jobs, bought houses in the suburbs and took modest family vacations.[3]
See Also
- Aristocracy or Nobility
- Bourgeoisie - some say White collar
- Working class - or laboring class - some say Blue collar
- Proletariat
- Caste system
References
- â http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Middle%20Class
- â James Bradshaw (1745). A scheme to prevent the running of Irish wools to France: and Irish woollen goods to foreign countries. By prohibiting the importation of Spanish wools into Ireland, ... Humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament. By a Merchant of London. printed for J. Smith, and G. Faulkner. pp. 4â5. http://books.google.com/books?id=AJdbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA4 Retrieved 2 December 2014
- â http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/04/14/middle-class-hard-define/2080565 Middle class a matter of income, attitude Dan Horn, The Cincinnati Enquirer April 14, 2013
External Sites
- http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/04/14/middle-class-hard-define/2080565/
- 7 things the middle class canât afford anymore: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/10/25/cheat-sheet-middle-class-cant-afford/17730223/
- Jobless Recovery is Here andThe Middle CLass is Evaporating: http://thesurvivalpodcast.com/forum/index.php?topic=9432.0
- http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/the-real-meaning-of-downward-class-migration
- http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/do-not-make-fun-of-those-that-have-fallen-out-of-the-middle-class-you-could-be-next
- http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21272238/ns/us_news-gut_check/t/who-or-what-middle-class/