Directions: Please answer the following questions below. Refer to the Social Class/Classism readings as you develop your responses: #25 (pp. 150-157), #26 (pp. 157-164), #27 (pp. 164-171), and #35 (pp. 199-202).
1. Describe the exceptions to the social norm of talking about class publicly. What is one possible consequence of the class-avoidance phenomenon?
2. What did the Pulitzer Prize-winning series, “The Color of Money” articulate about mortgage-lending?
3. In your own words, describe what the chart “Ownership of Household Wealth in the United States” is communicating.
4. According to Doug Henwood’s essay Trash-O-Nomics, (a) what is often hidden in the statistics about poor people and (b) who benefits (c) and why do they benefit?
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