In "Cracks in the Pavement," a mom-and-pop store is not automatically a neighborhood institution. There are certain aspects that the acheivement of neighborhood institutional status is based on in order for it to become fully integrated into the subculture of the neighborhood. Which of the following, according to the author is not characteristic of a neighborhood institution?

a. The store should sell food products that integrate into the social taste of the neighborhood

b. The store should hinder individual identity

c. The store should create social interactions that establish a status system

d. The store has to reinforce ethnic and class groups'

Asnwer: B.

The achievement of neighborhood institutional status is based on the history of the store ownership, the reinforcement of ethnic and social groups' social taste in food products, and social interactions that nurture individual identity and establish a status system.