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“In the largest study of class<\/a> in Britain<\/a> ever undertaken, the Great British Class Survey of 2011, which used all three forms of capital [(financial, social and cultural<\/a>)], the English sociologist Mike Savage and his colleagues concluded that there were now not three but seven classes in their society today.<\/p>\n There was still an elite<\/a> at the top …, 6 percent of the population. … And there is still a well-defined place at the bottom: 15 percent of the British population [form a] ‘precariat<\/a>“. …<\/p>\n But between theses two classes, Savage identified five distinct groups. … These groups don’t have a shared sense of what activities confer standing – reading<\/a> versus computer games, classical versus contemporary popular music, cricket versus soccer, and so on – and the relative prestige of their occupations is also far from agreed upon. Class in Britain<\/a> isn’t a ladder. It’s a mountain, with multiple paths for ascent and descent. It rises, though, from a single valley to a single peak<\/a>.”<\/p>\n aus: Kwame Anthony Appiah: The lies that bind. Rethinking identity. London: Profile 2018, S.165\/166.<\/p>\n