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Paragone@piefed.social 1 day agoSorry I didn’t realize this earlier:
You NEED to understand what Paul Fussell wrote about the North American Class-System, in order to make that work
( & if you’re in Europe, or elsewhere, it’ll still clue you in to many important things about class-systems )
You can see his Class-Status book, there, & also his one on why uniforms are the way they are ( which I didn’t know-about until right-now ).
Coarsely, there are 4 classes:
- Upper ( measures status by someone’s POWER )
- Middle ( measures status by someone’s INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTION-BESTOWED-DEGREE )
- Working ( measures status by someone’s MONEY )
- Under ( homeless-people, etc: people like me, who’s racked-up 7+y outright-homeless )
More finely-grained, however, it’s more like:
- Upper { Monarchs, hereditary-Oligarchs, minor “nobility”, etc }
- Financial ( have the wealth to be exempt from most of the regulations & many of the laws )
- Upper-Middle ( doctors/professors/lawyers/diplomats/engineers/etc )
- Middle ( lower-to-mid beaurocrats )
- Upper-Working ( self-employed, or owns their own business )
- Middle-Working ( foremen? )
- Lower-Working
- Under
Upper-class do not have a “job position": they hire middle-class people, like hired-dogs, to get specific jobs done.
The sycophantism to the upper-class is real.
You can see upper-class behavior among some top upper-middle-class people, when they intentionally walk too-slow, so as to force everybody all around them to pace-match them, “showing their importance”.. ( I’ve seen that, repeatedly, on a deputy-minister, at one site I worked, years ago )
Anyways, I hope that your story’s awesome, & is sooo well-wrought that you gain many many many readers.
Oh, this’ll help, too:
Logan, King, & Dr. Fischer-Wright’s book “Tribal Leadership”, as it’s on the 5 social-process-levels, so if you understand those, you can use that to show the process-change in characters when they’re stressed/opressed/afflicted, & they’re climbing down into Level2 or Level1 of social-process function.
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tribal-leadership-revised-edition
Here’s the TED Talk to go with that book, so you get the gist of it, to understand why it’d be important to make a story more true in your readers’ minds: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_logan_tribal_leadership
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