Pakistan has three main social classes - upper, middle, and working class. The upper class makes up 2% of the population but owns 60-65% of the country's wealth. They include high-level leaders, big business owners, and top management. The middle class represents 28% of people and includes small business owners and middle management. The working class is the largest at 70% and consists of unskilled laborers, shopkeepers, and low-level government employees. Each class has distinct characteristics related to education, occupation, income, and living standards.

1. SOCIETY & SOCIAL
STRUCTURE OF PAKISTAN
Roll No : PG-17-30
Subject : Pak
Studies
T.Name : Miss
Mehwish
Presented By: Hashir Ali

2. Pakistan social structure
 A social class is a homogenous group of people in a society formed
on the combined basis of
 Education
 Occupation
 Income
 Place of residence
And who have similar social values similar interest in life
The social classes of Pakistan :
1.Upper social class
2. middle social class
3.working social class

3. Upper social class
 High level of income
 High paying profession
 Living in most cleanest place of country
 Their size is 2% of total society
 Approx 3.7 million they have 60% to 65 %
of money of country.
Actually they are :
 High leader ship
 Big Business Man
 Top Mangement of the country

4. Middle social class
 Their income is not so high
 They are hard workers for their goals
 Their level of wishes is not so much top class
 Their population is 28% out of total population
 Their population is 53% to 54% of of total population
They are actually
1. They are small to medium size business man.
2. 2. Middle management
3. 3. Low ranking govt office

5. Working Social Class
 They not much educated
 They are not in accusative profession
 Their income is low
 They build their homes hardly 2 rooms
 Their size is 20% of out of the total population
They are actually
 They are very small size shop owner. Skill, semi skill & unskilled
 Low grade govt staff (peons, driver)
 Poor former4. Political worker

6. They are further sub divided into rich rich , rich middle & rich
lower classes, there are some characteristics :
Characteristics of rich:
 They are few and far between in any society.
 They exploit poor
 They have common notion to make profit at the expense of teeming
poor.

7. Characteristics of middle class:
 1. Social mobility is found highest in this class.
 They live comfortably than poor class, but are financially lower than
upper class.
 They all are employees (proletariats)
 They are being exploited

8. Characteristics of poor:
 Social mobility is the lowest in them.
 Rate of deviance is high in them.
 They are most likely to be drug/narcotics addicted.