A shoe manufacturing company uses ads featuring the members of a country music band with the hope that the band's fans will see them wearing the company's shoes and hence purchase the same brand of shoes

The shoe company believes that the band portrays the image of a ________ to the band's fans.
A) membership group
B) reference group
C) status symbol
D) subculture
E) lifestyle


B

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