To Impress Her Friends, Laura Wears an Expensive Dress to a Party.A

question 122

Multiple Choice

To impress her friends, Laura wears an expensive dress to a party.A sociologist might say she is engaging in

• A)structural social mobility.
• B)relative deprivation.
• C)reference group behavior.
• D)conspicuous consumption.

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