A social class is a homogeneous group of people in a society formed on the combined basis of

1. Education
2. Occupation
3. Income
4. Place of residence

And have who have similar social values similar interest in life and they behave a like have
approximately equal position of respect or status in a society.

The social classes of Pakistan.

1. Upper social class

2. Middle social class
3. Working social class

1. Upper social class.

The upper social class which generally have high level of income and belong to be most high paying
profession and they live in most cleanest place of the country and money will be no problem for
them and their size is 2% of the total society and approximately 3.7 million they have 60% to 65% of
money of the country.

They are actually

1. High status leadership

2. Big business man
3. Top management of the company

2. Middle Social Class.

The USC and MSC education are met different like USC study in foreign country like oxford university
and MSC are study in local university of their country but income size will found more different their
houses are different their house are not huge and not think for a huge house of defence and think a
house of Gulshan-e-iqbal their population is 28% out of the total population their population is 53 to
54 million of the total population

They are actually

1. They are small to medium size business man.

2. Middle management
3. Low ranking govt office
And the big difference in USC and MSC is house concentration they focus more to their house but
USC not so much home focus they are less and MSC lot home focus
3. Working Social Class.
The WSC are not much more educated they are not in very accusative profession their income is low
and they build one two room poorly houses, electricity not available water etc. Their size is 70% out
total population of Pakistan.

They are actually

1. They are very small size shop owner. Skill, semi skill & unskilled
2. Low grade govt staff (peons, driver)
3. Poor former
4. Political worker
Upper class, middle class, and lower class are Social classes (broadly speaking).

They are further sub divided into Rich rich, rich middle, and rich lower classes, similarly, for middle
and lower.

The characteristics are:

Characteristics of rich:

1. They are few and far between in any society.

2. They are bourgeoisie (employers)
3. They exploit poor
4. They have common notion to make profit at the expense of teeming poor.
5. They have their own norms which are distinct from the culture of middle and poor, as well as,
from subcultures.
6. They enjoy all luxuries of life.

Characteristics of middle class:

1. Social mobility is found highest in this class.
2. They live comfortably than poor class, but are financially lower than upper class.
3. They all are employees (proletariats)
4. They are being exploited.
5. Almost all of them have recently switched to middle class, therefore, their norms are likely to be
similar to that of poor class. But their kids are assured to have the distinct norms of middle class.
6. This class is the best example of DEFERRED GRATIFICATION PATTERN , which means, postponing
immediate enjoyment in order to gain a big goal!
CHARACTERISTICS OF POOR:
1. Social mobility is the lowest in them.
2. Rate of deviance is high in them.
3. They are most likely to be drug/narcotics addicted.
4. Their enjoyment or plans do not last beyond next week cinema / sea side trip, meaning, they lack
long term planning.
5. They are either unemployed, or get employment for short term basis.
6. This class contains the highest occurrence of sub cultures as well as counter cultures.

(COURTASY WIKI.ANSWERS/CSSFORUM)