Social class in the United Kingdom ageing traditional working class, a ‘precariat’ characterised by very low levels of capital, and a group of emergent service workers. The fracturing of the middle sectors of the social structure into distinguishable factions separated by generational, economic, cultural, and social characteristics was considered notable by the authors of the research. Members of the elite class are the top 6% of British society with very high economic capital (particularly savings), high social capital, and very 'highbrow' cultural capital. Occupations such as chief executive officers, IT and telecommunications directors, marketing and sales directors; functional managers and directors, solicitors, barristers and judges, financial
BBC Lab UK people completed the survey. The results were written up in a report in March 2012. The test found clear linkage between impulse buying behaviour and serious financial problems. Over 150,00 people completed the test. The researchers’ findings were published in PLoS One in February 2014. Over 150,000 cases of data plus the recruited GfK survey led to a paper in Sociology. This was synchronised with the publication in March 2013 in the BBC News website of the Great British Class Calculator. The calculator is a web application that asks seven questions from the original survey, and categorises each person into