Specters of the 'Middle Class' (was That Obscure Object.

[Bill Cochrane]

G'dday
I'm glad to see the vexed issue of class has stuck its head up. Have any of
the discussants actually tried to operationalize class models ? i.e. like
gone out and mucked around with survey/census data to create a class map. I
ask for the amazingly shallow reason that I'm about to launch into just such
an exercise (as I don't have a social life) using some kind of approximation
to Wright's first or second class model. If that proves doable I'll
transpose lots of attitudinal data on to the class map to spot any patterns
and assess the relative strength of ethnic/gender effects. What I wanted to
know was can any body think of anyone else, other than Wright, who has done
anything like this in the last, say, five years and what happend to Wright
at any rate?
cheers
Bill Cochrane