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Status and class

  • Status is a way that people help make sense of their social worlds.
  • When deciding how to approach a stranger, we look for clues in their dress and their manner. These clues help us decide how we want to behave.
  • Class is a major way that status is experienced and communicated. And over the last few decades, class has become less stable, less guaranteed - for everyone, including white people, for a change.

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