Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 11:52:18 PM, Paul Stone wrote: PS> At 06:44 PM 9/14/2005, you wrote: >>http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:O8AbdswOp_AJ:www.hecol.ualberta.ca/Courses/HECOL320/%255B%2520Presentations%2520%255D%252003-21-05%2520-%2520Lindquist_Chapter_14.pdf+%22upper+middle+class%22+%2BCanada&hl=en&client=firefox-a >> >>(social class in Canada) PS> Hey, I never said that the term "upper middle class" didn't exist. I just PS> said it was silly and meaningless. I'm not blaming you Judith. I thought perhaps you were saying it wasn't used in Canada. It isn't a silly and meaningless term in the UK, but then this is a class-bound society. Incidentally you seem to object both to Andreas' characterization of the Indian middle class and to my attempts to produce a more varied one, well, carry on You are just PS> a parrot. no, I'm not. I am using other people's work and classifications here and doing so very quickly and in a way that is to me inadequate; but I am not, where social stratification is concerned, any kind of parrot. Not that I would be ashamed of acting as a parrot for the better analysts of stratification. -- mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html