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The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

9780078026645

The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

  • ISBN 13:

    9780078026645

  • ISBN 10:

    0078026644

  • Edition: 5th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 11/09/2010
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

This anthology examines the social construction of race, class, gender, and sexuality and the institutional bases for these relations. While other texts discuss various forms of stratification and the impact of these on members of marginalized groups, The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality provides a thorough discussion of how such systems of stratification are formed and perpetuated and how forms of stratification are interconnected.

Critical thinking questions at the end of each reading and part opening essays aid students in understanding how the material relates to their lives and how their own attitudes, actions, and perspectives may serve to perpetuate a stratified system.

About the Author

Tracy E. Ore is currently an Assistant professor of Sociology and the Director of the Applied Sociology Program at Saint Cloud State University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Michigan. She serves as a consultant for multicultural education and curriculum to a variety of universities, organizations, and agencies and conducts workshops and trainings across the country related to issues of inequality. Her research areas include social inequality, race and ethnicity, and the development of effective teaching pedagogy.

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