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 mobility in Japan and social security policies. Not only did the huge middle class establish the image of Japan’s “affluent society”, but also maintained the long-term stability of the running Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, and verified the proposition that industrialization narrows down the social stratification. In the early 1970s, Japan even created the myth of “100 million all in the middle class” (“ichi oku sochuryu”), showing that social satisfaction reached a high level and the middle class awareness maintained long-term stability. One factor that contributed to social mobility in Japan was the rapid economic growth between 1955 and 1985 with Japan’s industrial