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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
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Strayer University
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Stephan is conducting a sociological study of friendship patterns by class. His research reveals that the middle-class individuals in his study have more friends but are less loyal to those friends than those in the working class. He concludes that being middle class causes decreased loyalty. What is a possible criticism of this conclusion?
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Class status cannot "cause" anything, because it is too vague a variable to have specific outcomes.
A correlation between lower levels of friendship loyalty and middle-class status may not mean that being middle class makes you less loyal. Instead, it is possible that letting go of loyalty makes it easier to achieve and maintain middle-class status.
His conclusion represents an overall bias in sociology against the middle class and for the working class.
Because loyalty cannot be measured systematically or objectively, it is inappropriate to propose scientific explanations for degrees of loyalty.
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