Middle Class
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Middle Class Income 2020
The plans cover about 10.7 million active and retired workers, many of whom are middle class and work in fields like construction or entertainment where the workers move from job to job. For middle-class families, that means two earners must now be engaged in the labor market to maintain the same level of income once achieved by a single earner. A social group that consists of well-educated people, such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers, who have good jobs and are not poor, but are not very rich: The upper middle class tend to go into business. Oct 05, 2020 Certainly the middle class has always been an amorphous idea. But it should at least nominally refer to the middle of the country’s income distribution. And $400,000 ain’t it. The middle class is neither poor nor rich, but comprise the largest share of the political electorate.
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- association with aristocracy
- In genealogy: Early written records
…in the growth of the middle classes, from which was continually recruited a new nobility and gentry. In turn, owing to the English rule of inheritance by primogeniture and the fact that unlike the continental nobility English nobility has never extended beyond the reigning peer and his wife, the middle…
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- In genealogy: Early written records
- race/class dynamic for African Americans
- theory of social class
- In social class: Characteristics of the principal classes
The middle class may be said to include the middle and upper levels of clerical workers, those engaged in technical and professional occupations, supervisors and managers, and such self-employed workers as small-scale shopkeepers, businesspersons, and farmers. At the top—wealthy professionals or managers in large corporations—the middle…
Read More - In human sexual activity: Class distinctions
The great middle class remains the bastion of traditionalism, and it is here that the double standard of morality is most prominent. The intellectualized liberalism of the upper level seeps down only slowly, and the pragmatic egalitarianism of the lower level does not penetrate far upward.
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- In social class: Characteristics of the principal classes
development in
- Industrial Revolution
- In history of Europe: Social upheaval
Middle-class people, not only factory owners but also merchants and professionals, began to trumpet a new work ethic. According to this ethic, work was the basic human good. He who worked was meritorious and should prosper, he who suffered did so because he did not…
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- In history of Europe: Social upheaval
- Ottoman Greece
- In Greece: The mercantile middle class
The single most important development in the Greek world during the 18th century was the emergence of an entrepreneurial, prosperous, and far-flung mercantile middle class, which played a major role in the economic life of the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere. Discouraged from investing…
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- In Greece: The mercantile middle class
- post-World War II Europe
- In history of Europe: Affluence and its underside
The benefits, for ordinary Europeans, took many forms. There was easier access to higher education and cheaper mass travel. There was more varied food; there was better health, preserved by better medicine. There were new synthetic materials, more plentiful housing, and wider automobile ownership. There were stereophonic recordings,…
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- In history of Europe: Affluence and its underside
- Russia
- In Russia: Daily life and social customs
The growth of the Russian middle class has generated dramatic changes in Russia’s lifestyles and social customs. Travel abroad has become popular, and consumption, particularly of imported luxury goods, has increased. Many wealthy individuals have purchased private land and built second homes, often of two or three stories. Russia’s middle…
Read More - In Russia: The Brezhnev era (1964–82)
The middle class grew in size, as did its average salary, which more than doubled in two decades. Ownership of consumer goods, such as refrigerators and cars, became a realistic expectation for a growing part of the population. The availability of medical care, higher education, and…
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- In Russia: Daily life and social customs
- Tang dynasty
- In China: Growth of the economy
The merchant class threw off its traditional legal restraints. In early Tang times there had been only two great metropolitan markets, in Chang’an and Luoyang. Now every provincial capital became the centre of a large consumer population of officials and military, and the provincial courts provided…
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- In China: Growth of the economy
- United Kingdom
- In United Kingdom: The political situation
The term middle classes began to be used more frequently in social and political debate. So too were working class and classes. Recent historical research indicates that the awareness of class identity was not simply the direct outcome of economic and social experience but was articulated in…
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- In United Kingdom: The political situation
effect on
- dress and adornment
- In dress: Europe, 1500–1800
…democracy burgeoned, so did the middle classes, which were increasing in numbers and influence. These developments lead to a wave of egalitarianism in dress and a gradual end to the idea that richness and high fashion were the prerogative of the aristocracy.
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- In dress: Europe, 1500–1800
- theatrical productions
- In theatre: The evolution of modern theatrical production
Throughout Europe the middle class took over the theatres and effected changes in repertoire, style, and decorum. In those countries that experienced revolutionary change or failure, national theatres were founded to give expression to the views and values of the middle class, whose aspirations in these cases coincided…
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- In theatre: The evolution of modern theatrical production
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