READ CHAPTER 3: OUR IDENTITIES
Course textbook: Terrible Magnificent Sociology
Edition: First Edition [2022 | 22]
Author: Lisa Wade
Publisher: Norton Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-393-87696-3
**Read required readings and complete prompts. All activity prompts below rely on students having read and engaged with differing material from Chapter 3. Read each prompt in its entirety before answering. For full points answer all parts of each prompt.
1. How is an identity socially constructed? Identify and briefly describe the five steps by which a human feature becomes a social identity.
2. Compare and contrast stereotypes, controlling images, and status beliefs.
– How are each of these ideas overlapping, but distinct?
– What unique function does each idea have?
– Why are controlling images so useful for shaping public policy debates and outcomes? What makes status beliefs especially important for social stratification?
3. Suppose that a classmate of yours told you that there is nothing sociological about age, that it is just a number and a biological fact of life.
– How might you respond, given what you now know about social identity from reading this textbook chapter?
– Explain your response and provide an example. Explain how age is a socially constructed identity
If you have any question or concern. Please let me know. Thank you so much for helping me with this assignment!!
Last Completed Projects
| topic title | academic level | Writer | delivered |
|---|