Socio-economic grouping is a measure of an individuals social background, based on their occupation and employment status. There are 11 categories in which someone can be categorised.
Category A consists of people in the Upper Middle class, for example, land gentry, or large business owners etc. Next category is the Middle Class which comes under band B. These people have professional jobs or are high up in the army. The next two bands are the lower middle class which fall into bands C1 and C2. C1 are professional admin workers, whereas C2 represents the lower to skilled workers such as plumbers, carpenters, roofers. The last two bands are D and E. D is classed as 'working class' in which people work with no or little skill in their job (supermarket workers, cleaners etc.) The final band E, contains people who aren't employed or students that are either at college, school or university.
I personally feel that categorising people using this method is very unfair as it does not overlook the background or circumstances of someone's life, as well as their personality. This method only takes account for the persons job role, and doesn't think about economic situations such as a recession. Overall, I have come to a conclusion that I am not going to choose a specific band in which my audience should be in, as I feel a persons music interest does not depend on whether they own their own business or just go to school.
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