Please answer all THREE of the questions below. For each answer, be sure to BOTH explain the sociology and cite your own unique examples using specific and authentic details from your own life. To demonstrate mastery, be sure to fully and accurately answer all parts of two of the questions below. I highly recommend that you write your responses in a separate app that will save your work. Then when you are finished, send your document to me as a word file, pdf, google doc or pasted into an email.
A) Social Class - Explain what the median American household looks like in terms of social class; choose a few of the following components to explain what the median looks like: income, wealth, education, location, power/prestige. Exemplify how your own experience compares to the median. What are the obstacles or the opportunities that your family’s social class has on you?
B) Race - Explain your ethnicity, nationality, heritage and why those are not "race." Then, explain how racism affects your racial group (be sure to refer to some of the research that we covered in class) and cite specific details from your own life that either support or refute the research. Finally, explain how racism affects one other racial outgroup (a race you are not a part of) in the United States.
C) Gender - Explain the social construction of the gender binary in the U.S. and how that binary has pressured you to conform using a few specific examples from your own experiences in life. Then, explain some of the gender-related risks to people of your gender and how you can use your sociological knowledge about gender to have a mindful understanding of your gender socialization to reduce these risks.
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