Studies of urban gentrification typically focus on property values and demographic change. Sociologist Marcel Antoine argues that this focus obscures something more fundamental: the displacement of established networks of mutual aid that had organized neighborhood life for decades. Antoine urges researchers to track network disruption alongside more familiar economic indicators.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence in the text?
- A
It introduces a different sociologist's competing view.
- Bcheck_circle
It identifies a deeper phenomenon that the conventional focus overlooks.
- C
It restates the conventional focus described in the first sentence.
- D
It refutes the existence of urban gentrification.
Explanation
Antoine identifies network disruption as the deeper phenomenon obscured by economic-focused studies. B captures this redirective claim.