For a sociologist terms like "middle class" are not unproblematic, on the contrary. This is also true of terms such as "upper" and "lower class" as well as all other logically possible classes of this sort, for example, "uppermost", "lower upper", "higher middle", "lower middle", "upper lower", "lowest". Logically - and this is one of its problems - the ranking yardstick approach can produce an infinity of gradations. Why not, for example, refine it to accommodate "higher higher middle", "lower higher middle", "higher lower middle" and "lower lower middle"?
Source: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100329/opinion/so-who-is-really-afraid-of-the-middle-class
Say, I wanted to know what the sociologists' definitions of these classes are for a particular country, where do I look them up?
Source: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100329/opinion/so-who-is-really-afraid-of-the-middle-class
Say, I wanted to know what the sociologists' definitions of these classes are for a particular country, where do I look them up?