ABSTRACT
Is your class simply a question of your wealth? Is it, alternatively, more to do with your social background, or your education, or your lifestyle? Is it a question of what kind of job you do, and, if so, is that because of the income you earn from doing it, or the status that it enjoys? Is social class an objective or a subjective matter-are you a member of a class irrespective of what you think, or by virtue of the class in which you believe yourself to be? And, however defined, are members of subordinate classes properly to be treated as victims, and discriminated against in favour of the interests of equality? Alternatively, perhaps the question itself is misconceived. Is the question of class a dead letter at the end of the twentieth century, irrelevant for both politics and social analysis?
