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From the advanced guide: 27 percent of those in social class AB found this unacceptable, increasing to 35 percent of the C2s and Ds, and 45 percent of those in
by divia 18y ago
From the advanced guide:
27 percent of those in social class AB found this unacceptable, increasing to 35 percent of the C2s and Ds, and 45 percent of those in social class E.
I'm sure whoever wrote this was just trying to refer to the different groups in a succinct way, but to me this classification system is amusingly reminiscent of a Brave New World's.
- andyking 18y agoThese are pretty standard demographic classifications in Britain, used in marketing and such-like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRS_social_grade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRS_social_grade In, for example, the media you'll quite regularly come across such things as "Over 50% of our audience are ABC1s".
- newt0311 18y agoBrave New World was scary, obviously "bad", and clearly unsustainable but that doesn't mean that it does not apply. Hell, the pervasive drug use and sexual anarchy can be observed in our society today.