%0 Journal Article
%T Multiple meanings of the middle class in Soweto, South Africa
%A M Phadi
%A C Ceruti
%J African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie
%D 2011
%I 
%X This study investigated the meanings of middle class amongst those who label themselves middle class. 2559 people were surveyed in Soweto, South Africa biggest township. The study revealed that a diverse number of people call themselves middle class and defined class in terms of ability to afford basic goods. The label middle class seems also to denote self-sufficiency, responsibility and social mobility The paper concludes that studies of the middle class does not seen to focus on how social location affects the scope of people¡¯s social world and their range of comparison.
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