social class middle class http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Middle_class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241588 HT680-HT690 A class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy. However, it is oversimplification to consider this term as an easily identifiable category that falls between "x" and "y" on one specific, agreed-upon continuum with established criteria. The definition of the term "middle class" is highly political and vigorously contested by various schools of political and economic philosophy. Modern social theorists—and especially economists—have defined and re-defined the term "middle class" in order to serve their particular social or political ends. The definitions of the term "middle class" therefore are the result of the more- or less-scientific methods used when delineating the parameters of what is and isn't "middle class." bourgeoisie James Bradshaw