1. Do you notice any similarities in the way social class is discussed in readings 4.1 and 4.2? Do you notice any differences in the way these two readings DIFFERENTIATE between social classes?

Social class in America refers to different variables to determine different categories of people in the society those variables are family income, wealth, education, and occupations. The social classes are revealed in 5 types including upper, upper middle, middle, working and lower class. Both articles 4.1 and 4.2 focuses on family income in which American who have higher income are considered middle upper class and who have the lower income are considered lower classes and the rest which is the higher potential are considered the middle class. The difference that I found is that the reading 4.1 illustrates another variable to categorize social class which is education and it demonstrate that people who obtain a higher education are upper class while people who did no obtain higher education diploma are lower class.  

2. Pick the station closest to where you live. Using the concepts from Reading 4.1, what social class tends to live in your neighborhood? Are you surprised (or not) by the answer? Do you feel it is an accurate representation of the people living in your neighborhood?

The closest station to where I live is 18^th and 20^th avenue for D train. Since the number incomes illustrated in these two stations are $39.524 and $30.051 it is seemingly that the social class living in my neighborhood according to the concepts in reading 4.1 is the working class because the reading states that people who have income between $30,000 and $40,000 are more likely to be classified as working class. In my opinion this classification is not accurate because it is probably true that people who mostly live in this area are working class. However, I could not assume that people who own business or any other properties who are considered upper class does not live in this neighborhood.    

3. Based on Reading 4.2, do you notice a general pattern about social classes in NYC?

According to the reading 4.2 the pattern that have been emerged is the intensity of people who have higher income in Manhattan rather than the other borough which reveals that the upper class is concentered in this borough through almost all the train stations. While the other class are dispersed to the other boroughs in varying proportion.