Assignment Specifics: I Identify two social identities in the form of race, class, ethnicity, profession, gender, religion, family, subculture or other group identity. (e. g. Chinese, Accountant, Gay, Catholic). Briefly define, explain and describe each social group.
II Identify the concrete, tangible, three dimensional signifiers of each identity including symbols, clothing, imagery, sound and documents of each identity. Then, identify the abstract values, attitudes, beliefs, norms and underlying assumptions of each identity.

Two social identities:

Catholics: are people who belong to the Catholic Church, the largest branch of Christianity with around 1.2 billion members.

Catholics are the largest religious denomination in many European countries like France, Italy, Spain, and Poland, and also in Latin American countries like Mexico and Brazil. The United States also has a very large Catholic population.

The leader of the Catholic church is the Pope, who lives in Rome, and who is considered to be the representation of apostle Peter on Earth, because Peter was the first pope.

Economists: economists are people who study and exercise in the field of economics in a professional manner. Economist is a relatively new profession, and economists can be found in both the public and the private sector. Economists are socially relevant because economic issues are of importance to every other profession.

Catholic signifiers: Catholics identify with the Catholic rite, known as the mass, with the belief in Virgin Mary and Saints, something that is opposed by protestants instead, with an all-male celibate clergy, meaning that Catholic priests cannot marry or bear children, and with a long-standing philosophical and cultural tradition due to having been the first Christian denomination.

Economists signifiers: economists identify with their shared corpus of knowledge, including central subjects such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, economic history, and game theory. Economists also identify with central academic authorities like Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek. They also identify with their particular views on the economy: there are neoclassical, keynesian, marxian, austrian economists, who agree with each other in some aspects, and disagree with each other in other aspects.

  a) written constitution. also known as magna carta and a necessity of the democracies that form federations to regulate the principles by which the government will be governed, because if they had to act without a body of specific laws would produce confrontations.

b) territorial division. federalism is constituted by the division of powers on the geographical basis of each territory.

c) decentralization. in a federal system there is both a central government and units of government lower than the central one, each making decisions regarding the provision of certain public services in their respective geographical jurisdictions.

d) supreme court of justice. to counteract the rigidity of the written constitution, judicial action is required to interpret said constitution and necessary changes can be made.