The Process of Status Attainment

question 10

Multiple Choice

The process of status attainment

• A) appears to be similar in all Western industrial nations
• B) appears to be quite different in the U.S., compared to other Western industrial nations
• C) resembles the process of social mobility
• D) shows how hard it is to learn to be sophisticated and cultured
• E) appears to have affected the civil rights movement

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