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In a way to earn a university degree--a Bachelor's degree,
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a Ph.D.--is entering in some ways a status group.
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It's not accidental that we wear these funny medieval robes
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on those ceremonies where the degree is conferred on you.
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And many professions which require formal university training
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act as a status group; like the doctors constitute --right?--a status group.
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Like, in some ways, university professors constitute a status group.
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Lawyers constitute a status group,
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and they somehow control ethics and entrance into the law profession. Right?
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There you have to pass a board exam
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if you want to become a lawyer. Right?
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And, in fact, states will make--in California,