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===Great British Class Survey=== {{Main|Great British Class Survey}} On 2 April 2013, the results of a survey<ref name="BBC Lab UK Survey">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/the-great-british-class-survey|title=Britain's Real Class System: Great British Class Survey |publisher=BBC Lab UK|access-date=4 April 2013|archive-date=6 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506082604/http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/the-great-british-class-survey|url-status= live}}</ref> conducted by [[BBC Lab UK]] developed in collaboration with academic experts and slated to be published in the journal ''[[Sociology (journal)|Sociology]]'' were published online.<ref name= Sociology4213>{{cite journal |last1=Savage |first1=Mike |last2=Devine |first2=Fiona |last3=Cunningham |first3=Niall |last4=Taylor |first4=Mark |last5=Li |first5=Yaojun |author6=Johs. Hjellbrekke |author7= Brigitte Le Roux |last8=Friedman |first8=Sam |last9=Miles |first9=Andrew |title=A New Model of Social Class: Findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment |journal=Sociology |date=2 April 2013 |doi= 10.1177/0038038513481128 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=219β250 |s2cid=85546872 |url=http://dro.dur.ac.uk/15884/1/15884.pdf |access-date=11 July 2019 |archive-date=25 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025100216/http://dro.dur.ac.uk/15884/1/15884.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=BBCHugeSurvey4313>{{cite news|title=The Great British class calculator: People in the UK now fit into seven social classes, a major survey conducted by the BBC suggests.|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22007058|access-date=4 April 2013|newspaper=BBC|date=3 April 2013|archive-date=20 April 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180420085749/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22007058 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=BBCMethodology>{{cite news|title=How do you identify new types of class?|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/22001963 |access-date=|newspaper=BBC|date=3 April 2013|last1=|archive-date=24 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224064928/http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/22001963|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref name=BBCResults4213>{{cite news|title=The Great British class calculator: Mike Savage from the London School of Economics and Fiona Devine from the University of Manchester describe their findings from The Great British Class Survey. Their results identify a new model of class with seven classes ranging from the Elite at the top to a 'Precariat' at the bottom.|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/21970879 |access-date=4 April 2013|newspaper=BBC|date=3 April 2013|last1=Savage|first1=Mike|last2=Devine|first2=Fiona|archive-date=10 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210083506/http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/21970879 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=NYT4313>{{cite news|title=Multiplying the Old Divisions of Class in Britain|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/world/europe/multiplying-the-old-divisions-of-class-in-britain.html |access-date=4 April 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 April 2013|last=Lyall|first=Sarah|archive-date=3 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703021923/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/world/europe/multiplying-the-old-divisions-of-class-in-britain.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The results released were based on a survey of 160,000 residents of the [[United Kingdom]] most of whom lived in [[England]] and described themselves as "[[white people|white]]". Class was defined and measured according to the amount and kind of economic, cultural and social resources reported. [[Economic capital#Social science|Economic capital]] was defined as [[income]] and [[Asset (economics)|assets]]; [[cultural capital]] as amount and type of cultural interests and activities; and [[social capital]] as the quantity and [[social status]] of their [[Friendship|friends]], [[family]] and personal and business contacts.<ref name=BBCResults4213 /> This theoretical framework was developed by [[Pierre Bourdieu#Theory of capital and class distinction|Pierre Bourdieu]] who first published his [[La Distinction|theory of social distinction]] in 1979.
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