The service class

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... that different from the working class? Goldthorpe argues that they

have not been proletarianised, he sees them as constituting part of an intermediate

class, in-between the service class and the working class.

The upper class can be defined according to both Weberian and Marxist approaches in

accordance with the ownership of productive capital, and also distinctive culture and

status hierarchy.

So where does the service class fit in? The middle class is sometimes referred to as

the service class

(Social Class in Britain and America, Fiona Devine, 1997) however there are many

different sectors within the middle classes and it is not possible to find a distinct

economic, social and political similarities, divisions have to be made. Distinctions are

made between the old entrepreneurial middle class and the new 'salaried' middle

class, or between managers and professionals (Devine, Social class in America and

Britain, 1997).

Karl Renner stated that high ...

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