Exam 10: Stratification and Social Class: Urban and Suburban Lifestyles

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Unlike the immigrant poor of the past, today's poor inner-city residents face social isolation.

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One of the poorest and most densely populated neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California, is

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In 2010, percent of all U.S. Hispanics lived in suburbs.

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The disparity between rich and poor is simply a matter of difference in incomes.

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Zip code 10065 is the most prestigious one in New York City.

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Beauregard claimed that to be middle class meant to have more than money. It also included having

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Herbert Gans referred to urban working-class neighborhoods as ethnic villages.

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If we compare income data by residence, we find that those living outside central cities in metropolitan areas are better off than those living within central cities.

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Chicago's Gold Coast is the wealthiest urban neighborhood in the United States.

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Once identified as low-income neighborhoods, Logan Square, West Town, the Near West Side, and the Near South Side are now among most desirable residential areas.

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Most cities lack mixed-income neighborhoods.

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Today's upper-class suburbs resemble the old aristocratic ones of yesteryear.

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More Asians live in suburbia than any other racial or ethnic category.

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"DINKs" are

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Grand Rapids, Michigan is characterized in the text as reflecting a(n) neighborhood.

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Today's suburbs fit the white, middle-class, and family-with-kids stereotype.

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Zip code 10065 is the most prestigious one in New York City, for it encompasses much of , the country's most affluent neighborhood.

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The main distinction between W. Lloyd Warner's upper-upper and lower-upper classes was essentially that of "old money" and "new money."

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In 2013, the official poverty rate was percent.

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Minority suburbanization is most pronounced in metropolitan regions of 500,000 or more.

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