I am not saying that doctors and lawyers are middle class. The term has
so little actual meaning that I am happy to exclude doctors and lawyers
or any
other group. Nevertheless, people who have graduated college and then
have gone to get training in a vocation that requires that college
degree to get
into the specialty school and then are licensed to practice the
specialized vocation are the ones who have historically been most
consistently called middle
class. Among the people I know, the phrase middle class is rarely used
for them. One of the most common phrases is those rich people up in
South Hills,
but that is entirely inaccurate too. If, however, my description of that
group that has been most consistently called middle class is used to
define middle
class then at least the term would have a specific meaning. The
usefulness of that meaning would be highly questionable though.
On 7/22/2015 9:18 PM, Alice Dampman Humel wrote:
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Doctors and lawyers, unless they’re working in the free clinics or for
legal aid are most definitely not considered middle class…the rest of
what you say
is an exposee of how you see the world and can’t be argued with for that
reason, but that statement about doctors and lawyers being middle class
is inaccurate
…just ask the doctors and lawyers themselves, their patients and
clients, their neighbors, and see what the consensus is...
