And educational credentials are often used as a way of determining social status – they determine social placement by telling us who can access which jobs, and how much they should be paid for that work – factors that determine socioeconomic status.

教育证书通常被用作确定社会地位的一种方式——它们通过告诉我们谁能获得哪些工作以及他们应该为该工作支付多少来决定社会地位——决定社会经济地位的因素。