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