Symbolic Indicators May NOT Always Be Reliable in Helping You

question 88

Multiple Choice

Symbolic indicators may NOT always be reliable in helping you assess someone's class status.Which of the following is an example of this?

• A) a group of businessmen plays golf at their club once a week
• B) a working-class mobster may acquire wealth and appear to be a wealthy professional businessman
• C) three women have lunch together in the Holt Renfrew restaurant every Tuesday and Thursday
• D) a cabdriver stops at a Burger King to have a hamburger and to read the Toronto Sun

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