Social classes

The Upper Class The American upper class is the highest socioeconomic bracket in the social hierarchy and is defined by its members’ great wealth and power.

Five main groups in the British class system

Many sociologists suggest five:

It has assigned the quintiles from lowest to highest as lower class, lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, and upper class. These definitions equate class with income, permitting people to move from class to class as their income changes.

The United States has roughly six social classes: