{"id":10676,"date":"2025-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=10676"},"modified":"2025-02-15T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T21:27:55","slug":"4-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/02\/16\/4-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"4.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In 4.1 they talk about how social class has flexibility when it comes to the determination of a persons social status. The flexibility comes from the subjective idea of social status. A person making 75k a year considers themselves middle class. A person making 100k a year considers themselves middle class as well thus creating blurred standards of each class. It also compares it to a hierarchy that\u2019s based on wealth, income, education, and occupation. In reading 4.3 they talk about social class based on owning of wealth. Owning a company or owning property.  They talk about social class determined on income, but for the higher class its the income they make off of other people(employees) work. Biggest difference I see in 4.1 and 4.3 is who and how they determine social class. In 4.1 they speak on how a person see themselves in 4.3 they speak based on a corporate view. Its less of an idea and more structured<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. I live on Long Island, I don\u2019t use the subways but I would have to say in my area I am surrounded by middle class families. I feel like its an accurate yet mislead representation. We are considered middle class because of income but the income doesn\u2019t align with cost of living.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. There is a very distinct social class pattern when it comes to NYC. The poor get pushed into one area in every borough.&nbsp;&nbsp;The resource \u201cavailable\u201d to them don\u2019t really give them a solution to proverty it just gives them a band aid. While the wealthiest people have a surplus of resources&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. I live on Long Island, I don\u2019t use the subways but I would have to say in my area I am surrounded by middle class families. I feel like its an accurate yet mislead representation. We are considered middle class because of income but the income doesn\u2019t align with cost of living.\u00a0 3. There&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-4-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10678,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions\/10678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}