- Top 1%
- Make money from what they own: businesses, real estate, stocks and bonds
- Do not gain tremendous wealth from annual salary

Capitalist Class

- Well-educated 
- Rely on high income from jobs (Doctors, Lawyers, Accountants, Small Business Owners, Business Managers)
-Rely on salaries to maintain class position (unlike capitalist class) 
-Subcategory at the top of upper-middle class called the working rich

Upper-middle Class

University of Connecticut

Dennis Gilbert's model of class structure relies on income, occupation, and education. 

- There are 6 social classes that are situated within 3 broad categories:
- Privileged classes
- Majority classes
- Lower classes

The Social Class Structure of the US

Barian, A. et. al. (2020). A Sociology Experiment. https://www.sociologyexperiment.com/ 

A Sociology Experiment

Privileged Classes

Majority Classes

- Working poor
- Underclass
- People in these classes may have some education but not usually more than a high school diploma

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