Social class in the United Kingdom assemblers and routine operatives, care workers, elementary storage occupations, customer service occupations, and musicians. The precariat, about 15% of British society, shows poor economic capital, and the lowest scores on every other criterion. Typical occupations include cleaners, van drivers, care workers, carpenters and joiners, caretakers, leisure and travel service occupations, shopkeepers and proprietors, and retail cashiers. The term "underclass" is used to refer to those people who are "chronically unemployed", and in many instances have been for generations. Typical characteristics are: There is a contention that there are homologies between the meaning context and tenor of the abusive popular word
Social class in the United Kingdom a general decrease in significance ascribed to hereditary characteristics, and increase in the significance of wealth and income as indicators of position in the social hierarchy. The "class system" in the United Kingdom is widely studied in academia but no definition of the word "class" is universally agreed to. Some scholars may adopt the Marxist view of class where persons are classified by their relationship to means of production, as owners or as workers, which is the most important factor in that person's social rank. Alternatively, Max Weber developed a three-component theory of stratification under which "a person’s power can