<Li> Chapter VIII: Industrial Exemption and Conservatism </Li> <P> A society develops through the establishment of institutions (social, governmental, economic, etc .) modified only in accordance with ideas from the past, in order to maintain societal stability . Politically, the leisure class maintain their societal dominance, by retaining out - dated aspects of the political economy; thus, their opposition to socio - economic progressivism to the degree that they consider political conservatism and political reaction as honorific features of the leisure class . </P> <Ul> <Li> Chapter IX: The Conservation of Archaic Traits </Li> </Ul> <Li> Chapter IX: The Conservation of Archaic Traits </Li>

Which of the following scholars argued that leisure is a symbol of social class