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Well high school certainly has "social classes", such as the nerds, popular kids, smart asians, jocks, cheerleaders.. whatever...

Even though most Americans are not aware of it, there DOES exist a social class in America and it IS significant. Most people live and die in their social class, it is very hard to get out of it and move "up" in a sense. People don't even realize that they are in a social class, but they are...

This is Warnerian Social Class model :

* Upper-upper class. "Old money." People who have been born into and raised with wealth.
* Lower-upper class. "New money." Individuals who have become rich within their own lifetimes.
* Upper-middle class. High-salaried professionals (i.e., doctors, lawyers, corporate executives).
* True-middle class. Professional with salaries and educational attainment higher than those found among lower-middle class workers (i.e.. professors, managerial office workers, architects)
* Lower-middle class. Lower-paid professionals, but not manual laborers (i.e., police officers, non-management office workers, small business owners).
* Upper-lower class. Blue-collar workers and manual labourers. Also known as the "working class."
* Lower-lower class. The homeless and permanently unemployed, as well as the "working poor."


This is Fussell's model :

Fussell's model classifies Americans according to the following classes:

1. Top out-of-sight: the super-rich, heirs to huge fortunes
2. Upper Class: rich celebrities and people who can afford full-time domestic staff
3. Upper-Middle Class: self-made well-educated professionals
4. Middle Class: office workers
5. High Prole: skilled blue-collar workers
6. Mid Prole: workers in factories and the service industry
7. Low Prole: manual laborers
8. Destitute: the homeless
9. Bottom out-of-sight: those incarcerated in prisons and institutions