Sociology

Week 4 Discussion Questions..



1.	A majority of residents of the United States are descendants of ethnic groups from around the world. Explain symbolic ethnicity. Reflecting on your cultural heritage and traditions, does your family practice symbolic ethnicity, fully maintain an ethnic identity, or have they fully assimilated into American culture? Define and explain American ethnic cultures.



2.	Using the definition of wealth to calculate your wealth, and considering Rossides’ five-class model of the U. S. class system, would you say that Marx’s concept of false consciousness applies to you?Why? How does false consciousness differ from class consciousness?



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