BRITISH SOCIAL CLASSES

BRITISH Socio-Economic Groups

Code	Class	Members	Attributes	Origin
	Upper class	Aristocracy, royals, judges	Landowning, RP, public schools, Oxbridge; sports social events; House of Lords	hereditary
A (3%)	Upper middle class	Senior managers, administrators, senior civil servants, leading professional people	Landowning, RP, public schools, Oxbridge; sports social events White collar, Bourgeois	18^th century Industrial Revolution
B (16%)	Middle class	Middle managers and administrators, middle level civil servants and professional people	White collar Bourgeois	18^th century Industrial Revolution
C1 (26%)	Lower middle class	Junior managers and administrators, clerical staff	White collar Bourgeois	18^th century Industrial Revolution
C2 (26%)	Skilled working class	Skilled and qualified workers		19^th century capitalism
D (17%)	Working class	Unskilled workers in permanent jobs		19^th century capitalism
E (13%)	Lowest or subsistence level	Pensioners, unemployed, casual manual workers		19^th century capitalism
Z	Underclass			immigrants

Major British conurbations

1. Greater London;

2. South-East Lancashire

3. West Midlands

4. Central Clydeside

5. West Yorkshire

6. Merseyside

7. Tyneside

8. Belfast

Main cities: London 7.1; Birmingham 1; Manchester 0.4; Glasgow 619,680; Edinburgh 450,000; Belfast 287,500; Cardiff 321,000.

Resorts: Lake District, Blackpool, Brighton

Celtic languages

P-Celtic Goidelic	Q-Celtic Brythonic
- Irish Gaelic - Scots Gaelic - (2%) - Highlands and Islands; also Nova Scotia - *Manx	- Welsh (50% can speak it) - *Cornish (1777 - death of a language) - *Cumbric - Breton

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