Lower class

Sociologists disagree on the number of social classes in the United States, but a common view is that the United States has four classes: upper, middle, working, and lower . Further variations exist within the upper and middle classes.

Gallup has, for a number of years, asked Americans to place themselves — without any guidance — into five social classes: upper, upper-middle, middle, working and lower . These five class labels are representative of the general approach used in popular language and by researchers.

social class, also called class, a group of people within a society who possess the same socioeconomic status . Besides being important in social theory, the concept of class as a collection of individuals sharing similar economic circumstances has been widely used in censuses and in studies of social mobility.