The Relationship Between Age and Status Is an Anthropologically Interesting

The relationship between age and status is an anthropologically interesting subject. Which of the following statements concerning age and status is correct?

A) Since age is biologically determined, the statuses attached to each age category are the same in every culture around the world.
B) The elderly occupy a high level of status in all societies.
C) Anthropologists doing cross-cultural research have found that age does not influence status; statuses are either ascribed at birth or earned during one's lifetime, and they do not change even if one ages.
D) Anthropologists have found that age stratification varies in accordance with the level of technological development; the elderly have relatively high status in many preindustrial societies, but experience a loss of status in most industrial so?cieties.