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?
    1. What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class and The NewYorkers Idea of The Week: Inequality And New York’s Subway has noticeable similarities. Those living in rural areas less likely to identify themselves as in the higher social class as opposed to those living in urban and city locations. The geographic location is essential in identifying where individuals places themselves in social class. In Reading 4.2 it gives data based on individual subway lines and those who live in Manhattan have an income that is higher compared to those living in more urban and suburban locations which show low income to middle class once subway lines start moving out of Manhattan.
    2. Reading 4.1 and Readings 4.2 are different in that Reading 4.1 describes self identification in social classes, how Americans place them selfs when it comes to their geographic location. In Reading 4.2 it pinpoints New York City’s inequality problem by geographic area. It is also is using data from the Census Bureau which gives a wider range of data of all states where as Reading 4.1 give less data.
  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?
    1. The closet station that I live by is the L subway line which goes from Manhattan 14 street and 8th ave to the last stop of Rockaway parkway which is considered Canarsie. I definitely was surprised because I would place families living in that location as upper middle class especially in certain areas where there is a lot of private houses and a lot of people are homeowners. As I look at the data and the year it was published, I do believe it is an accurate representation, I also believe that if that data was done today the income would be a somewhat different in that the median income would be less due to the pandemic.
  3. Based on Reading 4.2, do you notice a general pattern about social classes in NYC?
    1. The general pattern that was noticed in reading 4.2 is the subway lines that go through Manhattan where so many large cooperate companies are and where most people work have an income that is relatively higher, and when you start going through more urban communities the median income starts going down, then it starts going up again as the subway lines starts moving away from urban locations to more suburban locations. It goes up a little over the $50,000 median household income and doesn’t surpass the hundred thousand median income unless you live closer to Manhattan.

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