While working class and upper class seldom are divided (though upper class sometimes is divided into "old" and "new" money), middle class has the tiers upper middle class and lower middle class. I've never heard anyone use middle middle class seriously. I think we're using a five tier system, but I don't know how relevant it is these days.
In Sweden, many middle class people with working class backgrounds define themselves as working class. We discussed this sometimes in the first year of med school, and while we almost all grudgingly admitted we were from solid middle class backgrounds (often with family in the medical professions), many of us, including me, mentioned how our parents have made a class journey.
The free education reform really did make a change in our society. Very many people in my parents' generation are the first in the family ever to have higher education, or even secondary education. (Swedish secondary education used to be very restricted until the sixties.)
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Date: 2006-07-06 08:55 am (UTC)In Sweden, many middle class people with working class backgrounds define themselves as working class. We discussed this sometimes in the first year of med school, and while we almost all grudgingly admitted we were from solid middle class backgrounds (often with family in the medical professions), many of us, including me, mentioned how our parents have made a class journey.
The free education reform really did make a change in our society. Very many people in my parents' generation are the first in the family ever to have higher education, or even secondary education. (Swedish secondary education used to be very restricted until the sixties.)