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§Two distinctions: job distinction and class distinction§Different nationalities§A welfare state§The standard of living§Concentration of population§两个区别:工作的区别和类的区别§不同国籍§一个福利国家§生活的标准§人口集中度 Managerial and technical personnel Clerical and supervisory workers Semiskilled manual workers §专业人士§管理和技术人员§文书和监督工人§半熟练的体力劳动者 1 Class system dose exist in British society. 2 Most of the British population would claim themselves to be either of middle-class or working-class, though some people would actually belong to the upper middle-class or lower middle-class. 3 Class divisions are not simply economic, they are cultural as well. People of different classes may differ in the kind of newspapers they read in the way they speak and in the kind of education they receive. 4 One of the distinctive features about the British class system is that aristocratic titles can still be inherited. 在英国社会等级制度剂量存在。§ 2 大多数的英国人会声称自己是中产阶级和工人阶级,虽然有些人会真正属于中上阶层或较低的中产阶级。§ 3 阶级划分不仅体现在经济上,他们的文化。不同阶层的人可能不同的报纸阅读在他们说话的方式和类型的教育。§ 4 英国等级制度的特色之一是,贵族头衔仍然可以继承。The Upper Classes tends to consist of people with inherited wealth, and includes some of the oldest families, with many of them being titled aristocrats. The upper classes are defined by their title, but also by their education, and their pastimes which includes the traditional sporting life involving hunting, shooting and fishing, as well as a great deal of horse riding for both leisure and as a competitive pursuit. The Middle Classes are the majority of the population of Britain today. They include industrialists, professionals, businesspeople and shop owners. Working class people are mostly agricultural, mine and factory workers. Upper middle-class and lower middle-class ⑴Upper middle-class is used to describe doctors and lawyers and so on who have relatively high incomes and high-status professions, especially in families with long tradition of such employment. ⑵those unskilled office-workers and skilled well-paid manual workers are c