{"id":12644,"date":"2026-02-15T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:04:28","slug":"ryan-cuevas-discussion-board-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/2026\/02\/15\/ryan-cuevas-discussion-board-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Cuevas – Discussion Board 4.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  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?

    Reading 4.1 talks about to perceptions of social classes between themselves. It focuses on strict economic definitions meanings by the book; a class is set at one standard versus another based off income, education, age, gender, and location. Similarities are what people perceive themselves as it says 3% are upper class, 15% are upper-middle class, 43% are middle class, 30% working class, 8% lower class. It’s different when you look on a spread sheet of what each person actually makes and what class they land in versus taking their word. 4.2 does this a bit differently by showing the subway map in NY and showing the neighborhoods\/ class that live there.
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  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?

    On Staten Island the station closest to me is the SIR since we have only 1 train station here. Where I live specifically, it would most likely be working class with some middle class. It consists of SIM busses that cost +$7 to access if no one takes the train along with free train fare unless they are accessing the ferry. I am not surprised by this since I use to go to high school right next to these stops and everyone takes advantage of not wanting to pay since the MTA bus drivers have to worry more about when the kids get off rather than who gets on. I believe this is an accurate representation since there’s a little bit of everything out here. It’s really where people come out to retire cause one stop here, you’ll see a house worth $1,000,000 but then a couple blocks away someone’s renting for $3,000 monthly.

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

    Definitely. Places with transportations tend to have higher rates of taxis, better commute with the environment like train rides, busses, fare fees versus somewhere on the lower east sides or Bronx. It’s due to the fact it can get crowded since it is a very long ride and more accessible for people like us versus someone who can drop $40 for a quick car ride. When I use to work on Canal St., there was always a lot more taxis and high-end fashion business. Everyone had pea coats and what not and working at a dry cleaner, I found a customer’s shirt that was worth $2,000 so that was kind of crazy. While I take the s76 coming off bay street, more broken down and abandoned shops, more apartment buildings, complexes, cramped bus rides that last over an hour for me. I definitely notice a difference.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11317,"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-12644","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-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12645,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions\/12645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0505-spring-2026-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}