Writing Assignment 8: Chapter 9

Writing Assignment 8 Chapter 9: Social Class in the United States Chose one of the following options (A or B) for your assignment. As you answer one of the following options think about and note inside your response which parts of your answer are your opinion from your life experiences and cbservations, which parts are statistically accurate, and which parts may be stereotypes. (Can you always judge a book by its cover?) "Stereotypes - generalizations about people who belong to a particular category that do not change even in the face of contradictory evidence. Stereotypes give holders an illusion that they know the other group and that they possess the right to control images of the other group.\" (Crapanzano 1985) p. 302 of Ferrante Option A: (20 ports) 1. Write a one-two page paper describing how the upper, middle, and lower classes in the United States differ in terms of their clothing, housing, transportation, speech, attitudes towards money and work, socialization/reaning of children/parenting, definition of social problems, welfare, access and attitudes towards higher education, health care etc, 2. How can you tell which social class an individual belongs to? What role did race, gender and age play in your thoughts as you considered and answered this question? Did any stereotypes come to mind immediately prior to writing/researching your answer? or Option B: (20 poinis) Answer the following questions by comparing the everyday lives of two fictitious characters of your creation. 1. Compare the everyday lives of a 25 year-old man who possesses extraordinary wealth versus a 25 year-old man who expenences extreme poverty. Specifically compare them on such things as: a. what they are likely 1o do at leisure . where they are likely to live their family lives . health care . and their jobs explain how each man the wealihy and the poor got that way ~dan o 2. How can you tell which social class an individual belongs to? What role did race, gender and age play in your thoughts as you considered and answered this question? Did any stereotypes come to mind immediately prior to wnting/researching your