- The writers of Gallup and The New Yorker both discuss social class based on socioeconomic variables. Gallup writers Robert Bird and Frank Newport demonstrated what determines how Americans perceived their social class discussing income as a powerful determinant of the social class into which people place themselves. Drawing reference to education to a lesser degree and age making a deference as does region, race, employment status, and one’s urban, suburban, or rural residence. The writer of the New Yorker discusses similar points showing dramatic changes between boroughs of NYC and neighborhoods focusing on the shifts along the city’s subway. The writer demonstrated the swing from station to station of median household income from highest of $205K to lowest 12.2K. In contrast the Gallup writers took an similar approach showing social class by identification with income levels from lower bracket 0-$19K, to $250K +. Whereas Gallup writers differentiated social class by individual identification of household income, The New Yorker writer zero in on median household income showing a census tract with specific detail pointing to the lower Manhattan subways, such as Chambers Street, Park Place, and WTC, neighborhood as the highest verses Sutter Avenue in Brooklyn as lowest.
2. Jamaica Center/Parsons is the closest subway station to my current place of resident.
Base on the concept outline in our reading materials the interactive infographic points to the lowest median household income of 12K to the largest gap in median household ranging to $191K. This is not astonishing base on the socioeconomic variables.
I strongly believe that based on this concept and neighborhood demography it is accurate to say the representation of the people fits just right with the concept.
3. Absolutely! Income is a powerful factor in which many people identifies themselves, and as one experiences increase in income so goes a change in social class and status. The more upward movement in terms of the income range one experience the higher up in the social class one moves. A change of house, car, prestige and behavior, further pushes to the hierarchy stage in society.
