Instructions: Answer the following questions in a complete sentence, while reading the article. Each question is worth 3 points each

1. How do some sales help people tell the “buyers” from the “lookers”? Because some wear things that attract people.

2. Why has social class become “harder to see”? Rising income, flatting prices and easily available credit have given so many American access to such wide array of high-ends goods that traditional markers of statues meanings.

3. “Everyone…appears to be blending into a classless crowd,” states the author. Do you agree or disagree and why? I agree because when Vice President Dick Cheney, wealthy man in his won right, attended a January ceremony in Poland to commemorate the liberation.

4. What are some “status symbols” mentioned in the article? Simply got better as rolling out ever-loftier rich. America of $130,000 hummers and $12,000 mother baby diamonds tennis sets, $600 jeans and etc. Richest people are spending their money on personal services or exclusive goods.

5. What are some ways the “nation’s richest” set themselves apart? Isolating themselves from the masses in ways that go beyond building gated walls.

6. What have 81% of Americans felt social pressure to do? Where does the pressure come from? They left social pressure to buy high-prices goods. The actual social competition used to be played out largely at the neighborhood level, among people in roughly same class.

7. Where do people see “the goods of the rich” which they then “covet”? Coveting the goods of the rich and the powerful seen on television, Professor Schor said.

8. What does the phrase “keeping up with the Joneses” mean? Like your keeping up with them?

9. What does the phrase “keeping up with the Gateses” mean? I don't get it.

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