Hanging Tongues: a Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line WILLIAM

question 22

Multiple Choice

Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line WILLIAM E. THOMPSON
-Thompson's essay is about whom?

• A) high school dropouts who "pass" as graduates (sometimes even posing as college graduates in the high-tech field)
• B) socially privileged women (and a few men) who use their privilege to get jobs for which they are not qualified; they "talk themselves" into a job, then "hang themselves" by their incompetence
• C) immigrants to the United States who succeed by working hard and saving their money, while those around them (mostly young Americans) fail
• D) people who think they will continue their education but become "'trapped'" in a job and the debts of family life

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