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Social Class in the 21st Century is the latest book from Mike Savage, co-authored alongside Niall Cunningham, Fiona Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa McKenzie, Andrew Miles, Helene Snee and Paul Wakeling. Published in 2015, the work brings us up to date with the latest methodological possibilities of approaching contemporary social divisions and inequalities in light of current day societal structures, with a focus on those at the top (`the wealth elite`) and bottom (`the precariat`) of social classes. Based on the data pulled from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey (GBCS), carried out in 2011 by a large team of researchers led by Savage (London School of Economics) andDevine (University of Manchester), the book offers not only an updated and detailed view of social divisions in the UK, but explores what these mean for dealing with social inequalities today. Mike Savage, who was responsible for drafting the different chapters of the book into a cohesive narrative, has built his career on a long-standing dedication to understanding modern-day social class and inequalities, during the course of which his research has developed a distinctively groundbreaking quality for the wider field. Departing from a long tradition in the discussion of class in English sociology, including an extensive debate regarding the limits of classifying social class exclusively in terms of professional occupation, Savage aggregated some of Bourdieu’s perspective linked to different types of capital. At the heart of this discussion is how accentuated levels of inequality are reconstructing social classes in light of both the capitalist financialization experienced globally since the 1980s and the consolidation of neoliberalism as a model of economic, social and political organization.The book, placing itself in a void left along the trajectory of British class literature, is an essential reading not only to the sociologist but to any scholar hoping to grasp the complex shape and structure of class in Great Britain today. The GBCS consisted of a large national survey, taken by approximately 161,000 Britons, the result of which provided the aggregated information in relation to three sets of data: economic, cultural and social capital. With the collected data, Savage and his colleagues divided classes in the UK into the seven groups corresponding to the distribution of capitals, which produced the following (Savage et al., 2013, p. 230):

New class divisions? Elites and the precariat at the extremes of social class in the UK