Question

To what extent do sociologists agree that an underclass exists in britain ?

Answer 1

This paper discusses that question.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/press_office/bulletin/23apr99/article1.html

There still sociologists in Britain who do not think that such a term should be used to characterize the chronically unemployed. There are always some people who are unmoiticated, to call them a class or an underclass may not do justice to the problem.