1. 1. The similarities I’ve notice about the way social class is discussed in readings 4.1 and 4.2 are they both highlight our social class based upon income. Both readings give great analysis of incoming starting from making $0-$19k all through making $250k yearly. These social groups are broken down by classes such as lower, working, middle, upper middle, and upper class. The differences in the way both readings differentiate between social classes are reading 4.1 breaks down our social class by using analysis that showcase, education, income and describe upon how much of an impact age, race, and rural areas have on our social classes, determining what they fall under. Reading 4.2 showcases more on based upon your income, it determines where you can live. The graph shows more losses than gains from our socials class.
  3. 2. The closest station I live by is Bay Parkway on the D Line. According to Reading 4.1, the social class that lives within my neighborhood is between the working classes and middle class. The neighborhood is mixed with lots of Asians, Hispanics and Europeans. With reading the concepts, I am not surprised by the social class that lives within the neighborhood because of the culture surround and how small the businesses the neighborhood are. I do feel as it is an accurate representative of the people living in the neighborhood.
  5. 3. Based on Reading 4.2, the general pattern about social classes in NYC I noticed is within almost every train line, boroughs of Brooklyn and Bronx, the social class annual income was making less than $150k a year. However, depending on the neighborhood you’re in Manhattan for example, your income would need to be high. There is a lot of popular neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan that within the years, income needed to live there definitely rose a lot.

2 thoughts on “Discussion 4.1”

  1. Hello Helena,
    I agree that there have been a lot of neighborhoods in Manhattan that have always been expensive to live in but incomes in these areas have also increased in some form. Not surprising that on each Manhattan line of the trains mentioned had areas where people were breaking that $100,000 even $200,000 mark in income.

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