Use of the term working class to describe Mods I ve used the term working class to describe the main followers of the Mod scene in the 60s in the UK The Wikipedia article on Mods has a small dispute about whether the mod scene was an outgrowth of the middle class beatnik scene a east end Jewish phenomena etc I think it may have been all in the UK scenes tend to emerge because there s been a breaking down of cultural and class barriers Its no coincidence that the Mod scene coincided with the mass arrival of West Indians the first boom after two decades of post war austerity the first strains against the older class system through the media influence of America and other countries etc However it was still a scene that drew the working class young to its flag of modernism albeit with a generous contingent of middle class participants as well