Q #1: Do you notice any differences in the way these two readings DIFFERENTIATE between social classes?

Within the United States, social class refers to the amount of factors that are used for the purpose of categorizing individuals into distinctive groups. A few factors include but are not limited to wealth, education, vocations, financial income. Define sorts of social classes include upper, upper middle, middle, working, and lower class. Both 4.1 and 4.2 paragraphs fixate on financial income, with higher income Americans being categorized as middle upper class and those with lower incomes are categorized as lower classes; those with better potential are categorized as middle class. The distinction I noticed is during analyzing 4.1 paragraph, education lead to be another characteristic that is used to define social class and it displays that the extremely wealthy tend to have advanced learning versus those who don’t have higher education certificates are typically lower middle class.

Q 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

I live in kips Bay, on thirtieth street and third Avenue. The closest train to me runs on the green line on Park Avenue and is the four, five, and six trains. My area is classified as a middle-class region, according to the 4.1 paragraph. Since I live in an area where people live in apartment building and use the train to commute to leisure activities as well as work, it’s not surprising and it is an accurate representation of the people that occupy my neighborhood. There is also an increasingly frequent creation of city bikes on every other block and Avenue. The population of my neighborhood is also a melting pot with many different ethnicities and cultures.

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

The pattern that I have noticed is that many individuals in the city are either upper or upper middle class. However, if you branch out to the more north parts such as Harlem, Washington Heights, Riverdale, or the Bronx, you’ll send a bearing in class since neighborhoods are primarily medium to low income families.