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Answer the following question:

Compare and contrast upper-class, middle-class, working-class, mixed income, and low-income urban neighborhoods. Give an example of each.

Macionis, John J. and Parrillo, Vincent N. (2012) Cities and Urban Life. 6th Ed. Pearson. ISBN: 13: 978-0-205-20637-7, ISBN: 10: 0-205-20637-9

Review Chapter 10: Social Stratification and Social Class: Urban and Suburban Lifestyles

By the end of this activity, you will be able to:

Utilize the sociological imagination as an analytical framework to identify, describe, and explain the origins and historical process of urban revolutions and the development of towns and cities.

Identify and explain the major disciplinary theoretical perspectives in urban sociology: functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory and be able to explain the viewpoints of each in terms of various topics, such as geographical location and significant demographic variables (e.g., race, gender, class, economics, and social change).

Explain major issues in classical and contemporary urban sociology.