No such thing as a classless society Class still has a pervasive influence over British people's sense of identity
Anthony Heat, a 66 year-old sociologist and profesor of Nuffield College Oxford, is currently leading the first systematic research project about british people's subjectives attitudes to class and its changes on the last fifty years. Heat comments that he had made a lot of research about inequality, but there's no empirical evidence about class identity, so this project its designed to compensate this need.
Heat and another professor, John Curtice, of the Strathclyde University, analyzed the British Social Attitudes survey of 2005, about attitudes in general, that started in 1964 and have been taken after every general election since then. In this survey, there was two questions about class identity: "Would you say that you belong to any social class? In which case, which class is that?". Based on this research, Heat concludes that class seemed to be more important in 1964 than today, and that the people who described themselves as a working class have decreased, and the people who felt middle class have increase. But oddly, the classless people have increased only 1%.
An important thing to mention is related to the professional and managerial who call themselves as a working class, mainteining the impressions they had in their chilhood.
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