The peeved middle

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 16 Nov 2012 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 345, pages e7799-e7799 (eissn: 1756-1833,

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Authors: Des, Spence;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.e7799

pmid: 23160786

The peeved middle

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Abstract

I am a third child. “The older child gets all the awards; the younger gets all the love,” runs the psychological profile of we attention seeking, forgotten middle children. So it is with class. The upper and working classes are socially exclusive because success and money or lack thereof are no key to admission: you must come from a specific background. Both behave badly and care nothing what others think. Neither have time for introspection, and they live for the day.⇑ It is the middle class, so easy …

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Social Class, Health Behavior, Attitude to Health

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