{Circle Class Structure}[14th March 1988]

[Redbook5:60-61][19880314:1115l]{Circle Class Structure}[14th March 1988]

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*Discussion of the U~ position suggests a possible Circle analysis of class structure (there have been others!** In fact it is a hemispherical analysis based on occupational class, which nowadays seems to be the determining factor of adult social class and grouping.

In this analysis, G~ hemisphere occupations (mainly artistic, and in the minority) have occupational groupings but no hierarchy between groupings (except as theorised by people like me): so far as groupings see each other, this analysis is supported by observation. Nevertheless it is possible that (for example) each Art tends to draw its influence and even its practitioners more from the parallel stratum on the M~ hemisphere.

That is the hierarchical hemisphere, I guess, and shows the hierarchical or right-wing structure of classes: roughly, from the professional 'classes' (possibly narrower than the Inland Revenue definition***) around S~ through e.g. ordinary Scientists and Technicians around M~, craftsmen and (then) tradesmen(?) around U~, to such people**** as factory managers and factory workers, who share a similar low status, around A~.

Who is at the top, at I~? Royalty (and Archbishops?) I suppose; the old 'upper classes', now largely obsolete, might have been between there and S~; then the vast Middle Classes from about there to about ?the U~ side of M~, and the Working Classes from there down to A~.

This is perhaps another reason why, in our class-conscious society, nobody much wants to be a factory manager: but cause-and-effect are not obvious.

*[[Redbook5:57][19880314:1115g]{Fundamental Points of View [continued (7)]}[14th March 1988]]

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***[[Redbook5:34][19880304:1835d]{Trades, Professions and Vocations}[3rd March 1988]]

****[sic; in the ms the original following noun was “industrialists”, crossed out and replaced by “factory managers” as shown here – which perhaps explains the slightly, although perhaps unintentionally, disparaging tone of the reference.]

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