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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
That attempt to quantify social class misses in a lot of regards.
As someone said before class is pretty much defined by your associations, friends, job, employers prestige & location. A moderately successful fashion designer is considered a higher class of person in New York than an upper level Manager at WalMart.
But, on the other hand, if you switch locations to Bentonville, Arkansas which is the world headquarters for WalMart, then you couldn't be a bigger willy than to be a mid to upper level manager for the chain. A fashion designer then becomes an odd homosexual that is avoided.
Class is specific to surroundings in more cases than not.
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Yes this is true, that fashion designers are of course considered elite and extremely popular in a fashionable place like NY, Paris or Milan but in middle-america they would probably considered very gay and odd
Also a lot is upbringing/associations like you said, like those old families from NY like the Mortimers or those other society people who do charity balls and events for the Metropolitan Museum or whatever... I find it all really fascinating. I always wondered how those people got to be there, it seems most are just kids/descendants of parents who have made a fortune and a name for themselves, for example I hear the "Traina sisters" are very popular in NYC even though they haven't really accomplished anything, just their mother was the famous novelist Danielle Steele.
I guess in "really high society" you just have to be born into it, even your a millionaire that doesn't necessarily make you high society. I read that a lot of very rich people (multi millionaires), had difficulties being accepted by high society and nobility, one of them was a Vanderbilt.