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If you were trying to assess a person's social class and were only able to see the person and ask them one question, what physical traits would you look for and what question would you ask? Why?

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If you were trying to assess a person's social class and were only able to see the person and ask them one question, what physical traits would you look for and what question would you ask? Why?

Establishing a co-relation between social class and physical traits has historically been extremely difficult in societies not bound by caste. Beginning in the late-nineteenth century social scientists began to explore this relationship and ...

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