Many low-income families are more concerned with comfort than unnecessary lavish spending. Status symbols often shift over time, depending on the nature of our society and the beliefs of the people ...

From cars and vacations to private schooling, here are seven subtle but powerful ways Nigeria’s middle class signals social status. It is a set of visible choices that signal security, taste and ...

It's hard to determine a person's status based on their appearance alone, as not all wealth is flashy. Some of the most telling habits of upper-class people have nothing to do with showing off. They ...

Being middle class is, in some ways, proof of having achieved the American Dream. That dream is undeniably interwoven with consumerism. After all, there has to be some visible identifier of ...

In recent years, defining the middle class has become a slippery issue for economists. That’s largely because the income range that institutions use to define this cohort is so broad. According to the ...