ch.5 ex.1

Julie Charlip uses many signal phrases to emphasize to reader that she does not agree with the many sources she uses in her argumentative piece.
The first noticeable phrase is the second sentence. It immediately follows an opening quote from Marx and Engels. She continues to describe the fact that social classes are splitting up beyond Marx's and Engels's basic bourgeoisie and proletariat.
Soon after she begins to explain that economic classes are more than monetary. Her phrase about the factory worker and teacher says it best, "...if you earn thirty thousand dollars a year working in an assembly plant, come home from work, open a beer and watch the game, you are working class; if you earn twenty thousand dollars a year as a school teacher, come home to a glass of white wine and PBS, you are middle class". She argues that there is not specific distinction between classes, and that many families relate with more than one of these predetermined American classes.
To really drill her opinion into the reader, Charlip asks a series of questions to finish her work that would make anyone question whether or not they identify with the correct class.