Similarities and differences in social class

1. The reading explains that social class is not just about money but hat social class issues thing like income, education, and living condition to group people in society. Social class can be defined an many different ways, for example a lot of people defined social class on how people perceive themselves when it comes to their lifestyle or income while others look at in a more objective way with culture, education, and sometimes even race.

NYC Train Social Class

2. Based of reading 4.1 and me living in les manhattan , I would say its a mixed of both. In my neighborhood specificall my building where built for the lower income families, but since I live In manhattan a borough built for the more fortunate, we are surrounded by nicer building and higher income social class people that we see walk out they building and take the train with us everyday. I think it explains social class so well with how they just impact communities and our daily living with them choosing to build instead of help while prices of food go up, and affording healthcare gets more difficult

General patterns recognized in social class

3. A common pattern recognized is that a lot of people still identify themselves as middle class, even with statistics and income, even with big differences people still based there social class on comparison and identity rather than their income.