We will be talking pecking order.  Social class.   Let's traipse o'er the illusory mounds of guano.  In one regard, there are only two social classes, depending.   One strand of fringe is binary:  there are Brahmans, and Nobodies.  If you must perceive three social classes, fine, here:  Bahmans, middle class, and invisible ugly pieces of crap.    In this view, the middle class is desperate to curry favor with Brahmans, and have no respect, extending no honors, to Nobodies.  

Let's change the world, linguistically.   The new word for the local middle class is 'middlegets.'   Etymology:  middle class plus midget.  Tiny people who spend their lives sucking up to the A list.