[mo-uk]

I presume the overwhelming majority of mashadites are considered by the conventional typology to be Middle Class. I have noticed the vast of you are graduates but the vast majority of Kenyan graduates are working in low paid and low status jobs. From this we can construe that there is no social mobility.

Also from the conventional typology, being middle class entails a number of key attributes including: Cultural capital – participating in cultural activities such as going to the theatre or museums, but we know most mashadites graduates prefer nothing more than taking part in a Drink orgy (beer), or in the case of the feminist camp going to Bashes and indulging in low budget and low status activities like going to the movies.

[Ndinelago]

Originally Posted by mo-uk

I presume the overwhelming majority of mashadites are considered by the conventional typology to be Middle Class. I have noticed the vast of you are graduates but the vast majority of Kenyan graduates are working in low paid and low status jobs. From this we can construe that there is no social mobility.

Also from the conventional typology, being middle class entails a number of key attributes including: Cultural capital – participating in cultural activities such as going to the theatre or museums, but we know most mashadites graduates prefer nothing more than taking part in a Drink orgy (beer), or in the case of the feminist camp going to Bashes and indulging in low budget and low status activities like going to the movies.

Am lost as to how to participate in this thread. I mean SO??

[Ndinelago]

Originally Posted by mo-uk

I presume the overwhelming majority of mashadites are considered by the conventional typology to be Middle Class. I have noticed the vast of you are graduates but the vast majority of Kenyan graduates are working in low paid and low status jobs. From this we can construe that there is no social mobility.

Also from the conventional typology, being middle class entails a number of key attributes including: Cultural capital – participating in cultural activities such as going to the theatre or museums, but we know most mashadites graduates prefer nothing more than taking part in a Drink orgy (beer), or in the case of the feminist camp going to Bashes and indulging in low budget and low status activities like going to the movies.

Again middle class is relative,i.e. one may be middle class in one country and
low class if s/he move to another country.

[Wantai]

Originally Posted by Ndinelago

Am lost as to how to participate in this thread. I mean SO??

This is not uncommon for mo-uk threads. I am just saying.

[lyons]

Mo-uk:
i also wonder whether this is a monologue

you can be at any social ladder and not show off

[Wababa]

While many of us were boasting in campus, the so called 'failures' were struggling to make ends meet.
Five to seven years in campo and they had established themselves in jobs and businesses. Then they had earned enough to take part-time classes and parallel degrees.
Who then can we call the middle class?