Miss Julie Lesson Plan

What is social class? What social classes are there in Miss Julie? And what determines which social class one belongs to?

The phrase "social class" may be redolent of Marxism-Leninism for certain students, but the truth is that there has probably never been a human society that did not have some form of social stratification. In late-19th-century Sweden, for example, a laboring or working class coexisted with a rising middle class and an increasingly less privileged aristocracy. Traditionally, one's social class was determined at birth and could not be altered except through exceptional instances of downward or upward mobility. However, from the 19th century onwards,...