Ashley Aspires to Move from Being Working Class to Middle

question 55

Multiple Choice

Ashley aspires to move from being working class to middle class.She decided the best way to achieve this goal is to attend college and get a job at a high-paying media firm.Ashley is relying on ______ to increase social status.

• A)economic capital
• B)structuralism
• C)cultural capital
• D)functionalism

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Definitions:

Metaphorical Encasement

The concept of encapsulating complex ideas or phenomena within a metaphor to facilitate understanding or analysis.

Iron Cage

A concept introduced by Max Weber to describe the increased rationalization inherent in social life, particularly in Western capitalist societies.

Macroscopic Culture

A term referring to the wide-scale cultural patterns and institutions that shape societies as wholes, as opposed to localized, individual cultural practices.

Microscopic Individual

A term describing a closer, detailed focus on individual agents or small-scale phenomena, often used in contrast with macro-level analyses.