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In studies of social stratification in Australia the term ‘upper class’ is simply not used, largely because of the absence of an hereditary aristocracy. The result is that we have a middle class that is not middle at all, but rather the top of the social pyramid … in the absence of a utopian change of values, there is likely to be ever increasing differentiation between various types of professional and managerial occupations in terms of prestige, privilege and economic rewards. What we will be left with, in other words, is a society which is middle class from top to bottom (Anderson & Vervoorn, 1983, p. 148).
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Laming, M.M. (2012). “Going to univerity will …”. In: Laming, M.M. (eds) The New Inheritors. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-621-2_6
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