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manner of speech, (“class accent”).

tweed

people wearing jackets on horses

weird names (e.g. Jasper)

fur

eating pheasants and ox for Christmas
complascent lazy bufoons
runners of he world?

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“Middle class is a funny thing isn’t it?”

“2.4 children”

“people who drink a lot of coffee”

“ this prison almost of expectations”

Middle class people are presented as people unable to decide themselves, always fall between two stools:: “should they have a nanny for their children or not? Should they take more than one holiday a year?”

“what restaurant should I be going to? are these the right shoes?”

They sometimes pretend to be upper class people.

Are they more defensive of their middle class than anybody else or is there any reason to be middle class? “who would like to be middle of anything?”

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Who really rules Britain? Is it the Upper Class? Who is the upper class, anyway

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What is the Upper Class? - The Great British Class Survey - BBC Lab UK

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Who really rules Britain? Is it the Upper Class? Who is the upper class, anyway? Find out where you fit in, and help us discover how British society really works. Take part in the Great British Class Survey at http://bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/class/

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GB class survey reveals UK has 7 social classes

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GB class survey reveals UK has 7 social classes

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Results to the GB social class survey

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Study comes five decades after hit Frost Report sketch on three classes featuring John Cleese and the Two Ronnies

Elite people make up six per cent and have savings of more than £140,000 and top university education

The 'Precariat' group sits at bottom of the classes and make up 15 per cent of Britain and earn £8,000 after tax

More than 160,000 people have taken part in BBC's Great British Class Survey

There was a time when the British class system was quite simple.

Often the subject of satire - most notably in the Frost Report sketch of the 1960s - it basically came down to Upper, Middle and Lower.

Half a century on, however, the BBC and academics claim that is outdated and we now fall into seven social groups.

Scroll down for video and to take the test yourself

For instance, if you're a van driver on less than £160 a week who doesn't like jazz, you must be a member of the Precariat.

On the other hand, if your income is over £89,000 a year, you have a comfortable private pension, and you go to dinner parties with lawyers and dentists, you belong to the Elite.

The new social scale, backed by the BBC and called the Great British Class Survey Experiment , tries to take into account the music we listen to, the people we mix with, and the likelihood that we use social networks, to determine where we stand.

More than 160,000 people took part in the poll via the BBC website.

Freshly-identified classes include a Technical Middle Class, which contains aircraft pilots, radiographers and social researchers, and New Affluent Workers, children of the old working class who went to new universities, many of them people working in sales.

Call centre workers and chefs fall into an 'Emergent Service Sector' of educated young people in insecure jobs who are well versed in popular music, sport and social networks.

The Precariat - a word coined from precarious and the Marxist jargon proletariat - make up nearly one in six of the population.

The survey said they have tiny incomes, no savings, rent their homes, have the least cultural interests of any social class, and are 'the most deprived'.

A high concentration of the Precariat, the survey claims, can be found in Stoke-on-Trent.

One of the academics who drew up the new scale, Manchester University sociology professor Fiona Devine, said it presented a 'more sophisticated, nuanced picture of what class is like now'.

She added: 'It is what is in the middle which is really interesting and exciting, there is a much more fuzzy area between the traditional working class and traditional middle class.'

But author and social commentator Jill Kirby said: 'This survey has kept sociologists busy, but it is a doubtful use of BBC resources. It does show how difficult it is to categorise people.

'But it also shows there is plenty of social mobility - even the Precariat can escape more easily than the working class of 50 years ago.'

The BBC scale, produced with the help of the state-run Economic and Social Research Council and academics from six universities, follows the 1980s teachings of French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu, who said class depended on culture, taste and who you mix with as well as the kind of job you have.

The report said: 'We have been able to discern a distinctive elite, whose sheer economic advantage sets it apart from other classes.

'The fact this elite group is also shown to have the most privileged backgrounds is an important demonstration of the accentuation of social advantage at the top of British society.'

It said fewer than four out of ten people are counted as part of traditional working or middle classes.

The Frost Report sketch from 1966 made fun of the British class system but was acclaimed for its simplicity.

It featured Ronnie Barker saying to a tall John Cleese: 'I look up to him because he is upper-class.' He then added to small Ronnie Corbett: 'But I look down on him, because he is lower-class. I am middle-class.'

Classic Frost Report sketch and new analysis of British classes

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Steve Doughty, Social Affairs Correspondent

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Are you a precariat, new affluent worker or elite? Study reveals there are now SEVEN social classes in the new jargon-filled British class system

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Five decades on from the famous Frost Report sketch, a new study has suggested British people now fit into seven social classes, with the most privileged sitting in the 'Elite' category and only one in seven in the 'traditional working class'.

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Who is really in the middle?

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What is the Middle Class? - The Great British Class Survey - BBC Lab UK

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Are you middle class? Who is really in the middle? Find out where you fit in, and help us discover how British society really works. Take part in the Great British Class Survey at http://bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/class/

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“Good, solid, hard-working, warm people, salt of the earth”

“close families, people where the neighbors were all fenced together but generally quite happy people!”

“manual labour job”
“associated with heavy coal industry”

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What does it mean to be working class? Is there even a working class in Britain?

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What is the Working Class? - The Great British Class Survey - BBC Lab UK

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What does it mean to be working class? Is there even a working class in Britain? Find out where you fit in, and help us discover how British society really works. Take part in the Great British Class Survey at http://bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/class/