Upper Class

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Sociology Mind Map on Upper Class, created by Daniel Johnston on 28/11/2013.
Daniel Johnston
Mind Map by Daniel Johnston, updated more than 1 year ago
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Upper Class
  1. Extremely wealthy
    1. Need not work
      1. Roberts, 2001
        1. High death duties (Inheritance Tax) have resulted in a substantial amount of UC families losing their family seats and experiencing downward social mobility.
        2. Danger of being assimilated in the upper middle-class??
          1. The top 1% own about one-third of the country's wealth
            1. Wealthy families not individuals!
              1. Scott (1982)
                1. There now exists a unified propertied class -actively using its wealth to maintain its privileged position at the top of the socio-economic structure.
                  1. 3 Groups!
                    1. Entrepreneurial capitalists
                      1. Internal capitalists
                        1. Finance capitalists
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