they were lucky if little or anything was preserved, 'so that there is scarcely any question of property.' The nomadic people shun all forms of storage. They got rid of their utensils after little use; 'possibly to prevent the envy and competition that such property could arouse.' "Using data from the Oxford Study of social mobility, theorists such as Mike Savage, James Barlow, Peter Dickens and Tony Fielding, argue that the middle class consists of three main groups." (1995, Haralambos and Holborn, 71) Unlike many other groups in society, these groups are not distinguished from each other according to their seniority in class hierarchy, they instead enjoy the source of the advantages that they enjoy over the working class. The middle class gets their life chances from three types of assets: property assets, organisational assets and cultural assets. The propertied middle class includes those who have substantial property assets and would be regarded by Marxists as part of their bourgeoisie and small property owners or the 'petit bourgeoisie.' (1995, Haralambos and Holborn, 71-75) The self employed and small employers are included in this category. "People can only be acquired when people bring forth something durable; when they cultivate the land, produce durable goods, and store supplies." (2001,de Swaan, 41) The agricultural revolution had a large impact on our society and helped shape what it is today. People no longer were required to move from place to place in search of food, instead they turned that one place in which they lived into a 'suitable food supplying environment.' "Because property implies by definition the exclusion of others, property relations can only endure when this exclusion can be effectively maintained. Propertyalso calls for a non-aggression pact with otherpossessors and means that possessors must defend their goods from the propertyless- in agricultural societiesthis means that the landless, and in industr...
