Price or Culture?

I would have never expected something as seemingly basic as train stations to be an indicator of social class. When we talked about this during class, I began to wonder what other typical things could possibly be markers of social class. As I began to brainstorm, the indicators seemed endless. For example, the other day I picked up a magazine at the dentist's office in my area. The magazine had ads for clothes that cost thousands of dollars. In lower income areas, it would seem pointless to have ads, and therefore magazines, like this because no one would be able to afford these things. Similarly, just the type of shampoo and toothpaste someone uses, for example, can be an indicator of social class. However, in the case of magazines and movies, it is not exactly the price that is the deciding factor. It is, in fact, the culture that the product represents.