Your Best Friend, Who Has Recently Graduated with Honors from Harvard

question 61

Multiple Choice

Your best friend, who has recently graduated with honors from Harvard University, arrives at a party you are hosting. Despite being a total stranger to all of the guests, your friend is surrounded almost constantly by others throughout the entire evening. How would a theorist like Max Weber analyze this situation?

• A) Your friend likely has a large ego and is attention seeking by nature.
• B) By attending an elite university, your friend has openly stated his dislike for the working class, drawing lots of attention.
• C) Your friend enjoys high prestige due primarily to the affiliation with a high-prestige university.
• D) Your friend enjoys a lot of wealth and privilege and thus draws others who seek that as well.

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