THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL CLASSES IN GREAT BRITAIN by Marcela A. Nicolau

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  • 1485

    16th C TUDOR PERIOD (1485 – 1603)

    16th C TUDOR PERIOD (1485 – 1603)
    Social classes were organized as follows:
    -HMC (Burgeoisie)
    -Working class (wage-earning class)
    -Lower class
    *About this era: The Higher Middle Class was established

  • 17th C STUART PERIOD (1603 – 1714)

    17th C STUART PERIOD (1603 – 1714)
    Social classes were organized as follows:
    -The Ruling class: -The Peers
    -The Gentry
    -The Ruled class: -Yeomen (a new class)
    -Common people
    *About this era: There was a high degree of social mobility. Members od the HMC were able to go up the social ladder and become members of the upper classes.

  • 18th C GEORGIAN (HANOVERIAN) PERIOD (1714 – 1837)

    18th C GEORGIAN (HANOVERIAN) PERIOD (1714 – 1837)
    Social classes:
    -Rural society: -Landowners
    -Wage-earners
    -Urban society: -The industrial capitalist
    -Proletarians (people who worked in the factories)
    *About this era: There were changes in the distribution of the population. As a consequence of the Agrarian Revolution the “yeomen” disappeared. On the other hand, there was a great growth of population which is both a cause and an effect of the Industrial Revolution.

  • 19th C VICTORIAN PERIOD (1837 – 1901)

    19th C VICTORIAN PERIOD (1837 – 1901)
    Social classes were organized as follows:
    -Upper class: -Royal (royal family)
    -Middle upper (important officers and lords)
    -Lower upper (wealthy men and business owners <Victorian England Social Hierarchy>) -Middle Class: (Bourgeoisie, white collar professionals)
    -Lower class: (unskilled laborers)
    *About this period: It was a peaceful and prosperous time.

  • 20th C EDWARDIAN PERIOD (1901 – 1914)

    20th C EDWARDIAN PERIOD (1901 – 1914)
    Social classes:
    -Upper classes
    -Middle classes
    -Lower classes
    *About this period: The lives of the landed gentry and the grinding poverty of working-class life were much the same as before.

  • 20th C MODERN PERIOD (1914 -1945)

    20th C MODERN PERIOD (1914 -1945)
    Social classes:
    -Working class
    -Middle class
    -Upper class

  • 21th C AT PRESENT (2020)

    21th C AT PRESENT (2020)
    1Elite: the most privileged group in the UK.
    2Established middle class: the second wealthiest.
    3Technical middle class: a small, distinctive new class group which is prosperous but scores low for social and cultural capital.
    4New affluent workers: a young class group which is socially and culturally active.
    5Traditional working class
    6Emergent service workers: a new, young, urban group which is relatively poor but has high social and cultural capital.
    7Precariat, or precarious proletariat.