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 States subjective and disputable. Others, such as sociologist Dennis Gilbert, dispute the concept of a well-mixed society, and claim that distinct social networks can be identified for each class. W. Lloyd Warner also asserts the existence of class markers: Warner asserts that social class is as old as civilization itself and has been present in nearly every society from before the Roman Empire, through medieval times, and to the modern-day United States. He believes that complex societies such as the United States need an equally complex social hierarchy. The existence of class differences in American society has long been the focus