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Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class? | Extra iQ

This episode of LSE Extra iQ asks, 'Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class?'.
This episode of LSE Extra iQ asks, 'Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class?'.
Tuesday 6 February 2024 | 9 minutes 38 seconds
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More than one in four people in the UK, from solidly middle-class backgrounds, mistakenly think of themselves as working-class. Why is this? In this episode of Extra iQ, a shorter style of the LSE iQ podcast, Sue Windebank speaks to Sam Friedman, a sociologist of class and inequality at LSE to find out more. Sam spoke to the podcast in November 2022 for an episode which asked, ‘How does class define us?’ The whole interview was fantastic but we couldn’t include it all in the original episode. This episode features some more of the thought-provoking content from that interview.

Contributors

Sam Friedman

Research

Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self by Sam Friedman, Dave O’Brien and Ian McDonald

LSE iQ is a university podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.