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Sam Qwato
Answered Apr 25 2018 · Author has 4.4k answers and 4.5m answer views

Q. Why do social classes exist?

(1) Thanks for the A2A.

(2) Short answer:

(2a) Primarily two reasons.

(2b) The first reason is in the way people make a living.

Upper / Capitalist Class: Make money with money. Likely born into the class. Two words: Wealth
preservation.

Middle Class: Make money with education and skills. One word: Income growth

Working Class: Make money with grunt labor.

Clearly, the way people make a living shapes, if not dictates, all other life dimensions.

Where they work, live, chill.

Who they engage with, at work and play.

Their attitude to money.

Their time horizons: generational, midrange, daily subsistence.

Their view on education: joy of learning, social mobility, or breakthrough.

Self-evidently, lifestyle.
(2c) And then flowing from the above, the second reason is individualism-communitarianism tension.

Upper / Capitalist Class: Primacy of pursuit of personal aspirations and development, over
societal well-being. If people have the means, primarily money and time, they will want to throttle
the hot-pursuit of their aspirations.

Middle Class: Vacillates between personal aspirations and development, and societal well-being.
Their primary motivations are income and social mobility.

Working Class: Primacy of pursuit of societal well-being. Their primary motivation is

breakthrough to the Middle Class, for themselves or their children, via education and skills.

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Bill Powers, former Professor of Sociology at Suffolk County Community College (1970-
1999)
Answered Aug 1, 2018 · Author has 926 answers and 141.1k answer views

The term “social class” is a concept that refers to the fact that in all (any exceptions?) societies, some
people have more resources, power, and prestige than others. How many classes there are is a rather
artificial construct. The dividing lines between “middle” and “lower” and “upper” are arbitrary. I might
consider someone “lower” but they consider themselves “middle.” Education, income and lifestyle are
determinants of class membership. I like the idea that people who accept one another as social equals are
the same class. These people are like me in terms of education, values, culture, wealth. People can
experience “class mobility,” that is, they can move up or down. Personally, I was born into a working class
family and lived my early life in a very homogeneous social world…we were all very similar in life style. We
felt “at home” with one another. Because of education, occupation, and income I moved up a step or two
on the social ladder.

Communists tried to create a “classless society.” We see how that worked out!

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Sanjay Mishra, A Social Observer (2015-present)

Answered Apr 28, 2018 · Author has 1.1k answers and 808.1k answer views

Social classes will exist,it is law of nature. No rule or system can make everybody equal in the material
world. Nature has its own of action which differs from the humans. Our five fingers unequal, that is why we
can make hold/grip on something. If all five fingers are equal then what will happen just imagine.

Every individual is different than the others. Four brother from the same father and mother has different
nature/choice/ test/inclination etc. individually. So, how the classes will finish. If classes finish, can we run
our social system? Answer is simply -NO.

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