A graduate student in human geography

Source text:

The local professional middle-class hardly represents one socio-cultural force in the process of class restructuring in a central urban landscape…..Current gentrifiers of this professional middle-class distinguished themselves by their high economic capital . Analysis reveals that income level plays the dominant role in gentrifier identification.

Source:

Wang J and Lau SS (2009) Gentrification and Shanghai’s new middle-class: Another reflection on the cultural consumption thesis. Cities 26(2):57–66

Writer’s text:

Chinese gentrifiers identify their socioeconomic status based more on economic capital rather than on cultural and social capital (p.64,p.65).

Writer’s comment:

This is from two pages. I wanted to focus on the two points: economic capital, and cultural and social capital. One page says that they “hardly represents one socio-cultural force”. The other says “by their high economic capital”. I think I paraphrased the whole thing. Maybe I don’t need to quote the pages… but I’m very afraid that someone tells me that I’m copying anything.