> But then do you have a different term for what I'm talking about? What would you call someone who comes from a well known family lineage, speaks with a refine

> But then do you have a different term for what I'm talking about? What would you call someone who comes from a well known family lineage, speaks with a refined accent, was privately educated, went to Harvard, listens to classical music, collects french poetry first editions, but earns a pittance as faculty in the classics department at a college somewhere and has no savings or investments? He'd be middle class in the US, mostly because of his income. He's got connections but still middle class. A fast food worker would be lower class. A fast food worker who went to Harvard, with all those connections and hobbies, would largely be the same. But that's an incredibly contrived example. Class distinctions work because of general income-hobby-family background correlations that generally exist. Also, there isn't much of a "refined accent" in the US that I'm aware of. At least nothing as marked as cockney vs british.