Truthfully, they've got my number here. Ah, well. I'm boring.

[xiphias]

You scored as Middle Class. You're content in your position and would prefer a house or a family than a seven figure pay cheque. But you have your moments of weakness when you buy a lottery ticket in the hope of knowing how the rich and famous live. </td> Middle Class 71% alternative 50% Upper middle Class 50% Luxurious Upper Class 42% Lower Class 38% What Social Status are you? created with QuizFarm.com

Comments

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know what the heck "alternative" social class means in a stratified system like ours, esp. since I'm apparently 83% alternative.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It means "I am a moron who knows nothing about social status in the United States, and I made this test. Go me!"

Not just in the US, either.

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. I tried to take it. Every ounce of background in economics, political philosophy, and sociology screamed and threatened to leave my body if I did not stop.

I quit. It was too painful to continue.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

That's how I would've translated it, too.

[alaria-lyon.livejournal.com]

Here is the alternative:

You scored as alternative. You're partially respected for being an individual in a conformist world yet others take you as a radical. You have no place in society because you choose not to belong there - you're the luckiest of them all, even if your parents are completely ashamed of you. Just don't take drugs ok?

[goljerp]

Way back in the late '80s, I took a college sociology class, and one of the books we were assigned was called something like "Class". It could have been Class : A Guide Through The American Status System, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyhow, one of the things that book had was a quiz at the back where you could figure out your social class by the stuff in your living room. It's probably a bit out of date by now (the version on Amazon, if indeed it's the same book, was "reissued" 12 years ago, and things change...), but I remember it as being amusing. More amusing than this quiz, which put me at 75% "Alternative".

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Haha, I wonder what that quiz would do for me, considering our living room consists of a TV, two couches, a couple of other seats and a table and NO BOOKS... all the bookcases and the computer table (which is made up of boxes of books) are in another room...

[goljerp]

Hmm... I'm not sure. As I recall, part of the thesis was that those who are really upper class are less likely to have really fancy/pretentious stuff in their living room. So if you had an expensive oriental rug there, you're middle class; a worn oriental rug is upper class...

I remember my reaction being, "Well, my parents have a worn oriental rug in the living room, but I think it's because they like it, not because of class"