The document breaks down UK social status into 6 groups labeled A through E based mainly on income and occupation. Group A represents upper middle class professionals, while E represents those with the lowest income levels including pensioners and casual workers. This classification system can be used to analyze how different social groups might react to media texts. The document also includes data showing the percentage distribution of these social classes in the UK, as well as maps depicting clustering of high and low income populations.

2. Social Grade Social Status Occupation
A upper middle class higher managerial,
administrative or
professional
B middle class intermediate
managerial,
administrative or
professional
C1 lower middle class supervisory or
clerical, junior
managerial,
administrative or
professional
C2 skilled working class skilled manual
workers
D working class semi and unskilled
manual workers
E those at lowest level of
income
state pensioners or
widows (no other
earner), casual or
lowest grade workers

3.  Social status can be broken down 6 groups,
each of which is represented by a letter.
These are ordered mainly by income which
then also depends on occupation. This
demographic can be used to group social
societies and communities and then used to
observe how they will react to certain media
texts.

5.  This data shows the percentage
distribution of each social demographic
in the UK. It is clear that this is skewed
towards the bottom end as there are
many lower grade workers in
complaisant to the small amount of
elites/higher class. This data also
included the average ages of class
however there is no clear correlation
between age and class.

6.  This image shows the
proportion of the elite
in relation to the
amount of near by
elites in their area.
From this you can see
that the highest class
cluster together in
most places. Also
where there is low
income, the
surrounding areas also
have lower incomes.