Heterosexual Questionnaire

 LESSON 4 

What Is Social Class? 

READ: 

What’s Class got to do with it? Michael Zweig (from his book by the same title) 

WRITING TOPIC 

• How is social class like and also different from race, sex, gender, and sexual orientation? 

READ: The Silver Spoon: Inheritance and the Staggered Start, Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller Jr. 

Personal Account: I Am a Pakistani Woman, Hoorie I. Siddique 

WRITING TOPIC: 

• On what grounds do McNamee and Miller conclude that America is not a middle-class society? Is their 

conclusion supportable? 

• In what ways does America function as a meritocracy and in what ways does it not? 

What Is Sexuality? READ: 

The Heterosexual Questionnaire? Martin Rochlin 

WRITING TOPIC: 

• What is your reaction to the Heterosexual Questionnaire? 

• What are the assumptions behind these questions?