Social class in the future

John Samuels

Recent studies showing that social class is unstable at the level of individuals (though not in aggregate) merely confirm what has been known for many years, even from census and other government work.

Social Class in the Future

John Samuels

INTRODUCTION

At the MRS Conference earlier this year Rosemary Ford of BMRB and Sarah O’Brien of Granada delivered their now widely publicised paper (1) which showed, among other things, that in a sample of 400 people, re-interviewed after a ten month interval, 41 per cent were allocated to a different social class. One week after the paper was delivered BMRB announced the launch of its new ABTGI survey, where eligibility for sample is based on the same apparently unreliable social class classification.

This, at first sight, presents a painful dilemma for the Managing...

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