Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?

The main question we consider in this paper is that of whether present-day British society has a recognisable status order. We treat this question, however, in the context of a larger problem concerning the stratification of modern societies in general: namely, that of whether it is still empirically defensible and conceptually valuable to distinguish, on broadly Weberian lines (Weber, 1922/1968: 302–307, 926–939), between a status order and a class structure.