Social classes in the united states maxine comes from a working-class background. her father worked in construction his whole life and her mother was a stay-at-home mom who dropped out of high school but later got her ged. maxine becomes interested in computer programming at a young age and spends many hours in the school library teaching herself. maxine attends the state university on a scholarship. while there, she develops a valuable algorithm for identifying neurological diseases that makes her a multi-millionaire. she drops out of college to continue her work. which term related to social class best describes the example of maxine?