Writing Homework Help

Answer any two questions listed below in 3-5 complete sentences, per question:

1. How do you identify economically? Are you poor, working class, middle class, wealthy, something else? How do you know?
2. What, if anything, do you know about how your family ended up in its present economic condition? Were previous generations poorer or wealthier than your family?
3. What messages did you receive growing up about what it meant to be the class identity you and your family had? What were the cues that let you know you belonged to a certain social class? Did you grow up in a neighborhood or area in which families were economically diverse or economically similar?
4. What biases, prejudices, or other beliefs did you have growing up, or do you have now, about people who are poorer than you? What about people who are wealthier than you?
5. Do you aspire to be financially wealthy?
6. Would you say most of your friends are in the same socioeconomic bracket as you are?