Students of parents who are well educated and economically prosperous have a position in the class structure that is ______ while students from poor families with no college background experience a class structure that is ______.

A. enabling; constraining
B. constraining; enabling
C. high; low
D. advantaged; disadvantaged


Ans: A

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