1. Summarize each clip. Give your opinion regarding each clip in your summary. This should be at least 10 sentences per clip.
2. Discuss an open system is an achievement-based economic system with social mobility between classes. By contrast, people in a closed class system have been confined to their ancestral economic position, and their social status has mostly been prescribed by birth. In a closed system, it is really not possible to move between the ranks or tiers. Based on what you watched, do you believe our system in the United States is open or closed? Why?
Part 2:
Please read in your textbook: Pages 229-231
textbook link: https://learn.saylor.org/pluginfile.php/40700/mod_resource/content/2/OpenStax-Sociology.pdf
Respond to the following questions in your own words:
1. What is meant by “race’?
2. What does the “social construction of race” mean? According to the textbook, how does the classification of race differ in Brazil?
3. What is meant by ethnicity?
4. What is a minority group?
5. What is the “Scapegoat theory”?
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