Talking about CLASS in CLASS

Although we touched upon some concepts of class and we challenged our perceptions of what we thought we knew about each other..there is still so much more that I would like to understand from dialoguing with others...How would you answer some of these questions?

1. What does it mean to be "more middle class"?
2. Who are the rich and how did they "get rich"?
3. Who are the poor and how did they "get poor"?
4. What does "a working class background" mean?
5. What is the difference between a blue collar worker and a white collar worker?
6. How do we use these concepts or constructs to interpret what we see as the "values" that others have?
7. Have these concepts changed overtime?
8. Are these concepts still valid?
9. Are the constraints of economic stratification just a bunch of "higgly piggly?" (Mulcahy, 2007)