The Great British Class Survey

• The Great British Class Survey conducted a survey with 161,000 people and concluded that class is better measured by 3 aspects:

  • Economic Capital
  • Social Capital
  • Cultural Capital
• Pierre Bourdieu (1984, 1986) defined 3 Forms of Capital:

  • Economic Capital = Economic Wealth
  • Social Capital = Networks with high status people
  • Cultural Capital = Cultural Interests of a person
• The Great British Class Survey (2013) sectioned into 7 Different Social Classes:

  • The Elite
  • Established Middle Class
  • Technical Middle Class
  • New Affluent Workers
  • Traditional Working Class
  • Emergent Service Workers
  • Precariat
• The Great British Class Survey (2013) found that the top 6% of the British Society were The Elite Class with high levels of 3 Capitals