I wouldn’t say it that way, because I think “deliberate” denotes one rarely-used corner point in a 2D space, where one dimension is the degree to which an action was affected by a desired outcome, and the other dimension is the degree to which the agent was aware of this.
So you think that this was deliberately done in order to obscure the implication that high SES was a good thing? Very possible.
I wouldn’t say it that way, because I think “deliberate” denotes one rarely-used corner point in a 2D space, where one dimension is the degree to which an action was affected by a desired outcome, and the other dimension is the degree to which the agent was aware of this.