The course film People Like Us offered “tribes” as a metapho…

The course film People Like Us offered “tribes” as a metaphor to illustrate how internally complex and diverse each major social class category of upper, middle, and lower class is. The contemporary marketing company, Prizm, also complexifies our understandings of social classes by dividing the U.S. into  ________

Age Cohort theory, while provocative, has its detractors.  O…

Age Cohort theory, while provocative, has its detractors.  One criticism is knowing how or when to identify when one generation ends and another begins. According to Jason Dorsey (course TedTalk), you are a member of Gen Z if you have no memory of 9-11. Other ways he characterizes Gen Z are that they are members of the most diverse generation in U.S. history and they are _________.

Which of the following is NOT an argument about the White wo…

Which of the following is NOT an argument about the White working class made by J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), author of the bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy who later became a Republican U.S. Senator from Ohio, and is now the Vice President-Elect of the United States.

Today, the language of first, second, and third world nation…

Today, the language of first, second, and third world nations has been critiqued as having hidden biases that place more value and prestige on the nations labeled “first world” (cf. “We’re number one) than on nations labeled “third world.”  In the place of those terms, ___________ are now being used more frequently.

____________ was discussed in your readings as program of re…

____________ was discussed in your readings as program of research in the 1920s developed by U.S. “race scientist” to improve the human race by breeding the what they believed to be the superior Whites races (Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon).  The course film, Race, Power of an Illusion futher argued that during World War II, the Nazi’s used this U.S. research to justify their attempts to exterminate the Jews, disabled persons, and other minority groups.

The course film People Like Us offered _________ as a metaph…

The course film People Like Us offered _________ as a metaphor to illustrate how internally complex and diverse each major social class category of upper, middle, and lower class is. The contemporary marketing company, Prizm, also complexifies our understandings of social classes by dividing the U.S. into 68 market segments based on zip codes.