文档介绍：Middle Class
The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a societal hierarchy. In Weberian socio-economic tesalaries tend to be determined by middle class occupations, which in turn are attained by means of middle class values...The middle class is, essentially, a macro-social group embracing individuals, or rather categories of individuals, marked by a unique general attitude towards life. Those are people who owe everything to their own efforts, resources, qualification, education , etc. Self-made as they are, middle-class people are furthermore self-employed and relatively free and autonomous in their work. Their knowledge and qualification , property and managerial skills are intentionally acquired and so is their social status... in-between the upper crust and the wage earners, in-between the envy of the world and the pitied ones.
Within capitalism, middle class initially referred to the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie. However, with the immiserisation and proletarianisation of much of the petit bourgeois world, and the growth of finance capitalism, middle class came to refer to the combination of labour aristocracy,professionals and white collar workers.
The size of the middle class depends on how it is defined, whether by education, wealth, environment of upbringing, social network, manners or values, etc. These are all related, though far from determin