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.