Symbolic indicators may NOT always be reliable in helping you assess someone's class status.Which of the following is an example of this?
A) a group of businessmen plays golf at their club once a week
B) a working-class mobster may acquire wealth and appear to be a wealthy professional businessman
C) three women have lunch together in the Holt Renfrew restaurant every Tuesday and Thursday
D) a cabdriver stops at a Burger King to have a hamburger and to read the Toronto Sun

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The example of a working-class mobster acquiring wealth and appearing to be a wealthy professional businessman shows that symbolic indicators can be misleading and not reliable in assessing someone's class status. The other options do not necessarily suggest that symbolic indicators may be unreliable.

Symbolic Indicators May NOT Always Be Reliable in Helping You