There is hardly any modern society in present times with no classes. The situation is similar in Britain, although it has been changed in recent years.

In earlier times, basically in the Middle Ages, the society used to be based on wealth, property ownership, political power or aristocratic priviledge. The former hierarchies have been radically changed during past few centuries into another version that is a division into lower or working class, middle and upper class. In the twentieth century, the class structure has become more and more orientated on education. Education, of course, provides varios job oportunities, and therefore present British class structure can be and is based on occupation.

The latest model divides British society into: a professional class made of higher and lower-grade professional workers, an intermediate skilled class consisting of non-manual and manual skilled workers and a mixed class of semi-skilled and unskilled workers.

Even though, class system is not a virtually closed structure, there exist problems of social mobility. Britons are significantly class-conscious and they clearly distinguish between relatively constant class-boundaries. These boundaries are even being emphasised by market researchers, politicians and even by Britons themselves.

It is impossible to have a society with no class distinctions, and Britain is not an exception, too. As for we can relatively clearly see different classes in the UK, from this point of view, British society cannot be regarded as homogeneous.

As far as this point, different aspects of society in Britain have been analysed. In the following conclusion the thesis from the introduction is going to be confirmed or disproved.

Hence, in this work, ethnicity, age and class in British society have been discussed. While there exist various ethnic minorities with distinctive languages and culture in Britain, while the society is divided according to age groups, each group having its own culture and style, while the society is also stratified according to class system, it can be confirmed that British society is not homogeneous, it is heterogeneous.