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

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ISBN-10: 0078026644

ISBN-13: 9780078026645

Edition: 5th 2011

Authors: Tracy E. Ore

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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, Ore 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. 13 new readings have been added focusing on…    
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Book details

List price: $129.00
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 11/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.10" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.332

Preface
Constructing Differences
Examining what categories are constructed, how this is done, and why such categories of difference are constructed
Race & Ethnicity
Racial Formations
Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?
Becoming Suspects
How Did Jews Become White Folks?
Social Class
Race, Homeownership and Wealth - Thomas Shapiro
Media Magic: Making Class Invisible
Doubly Divided: The Racial Wealth Gap
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Sex & Gender
The Social Construction of Gender
The Five Sexes, Revisited
The Transgender Paradigm Shift toward Free Expression
Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
Sexuality
The Invention of Heterosexuality
'If You Don't Kiss Me, You're Dumped': Boys, Boyfriends and Heterosexualised Masculinities in the Primary School
Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Sexual Landscape
Naming All the Parts
Maintaining Inequalities: Systems of Oppression & Privilege
Examining what elements of social structure work to maintain systems of stratification based on constructions of difference
Social Institutions
Family
Fictive Kin, Paper Sons, and Compadrazgo: Women of Color and the Struggle for Family Survival
Families on the Fault Line: America's Working Class Speaks About the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity
Stability and Change in Chicano Men's Family Lives
Gay and Lesbian Families Are Here
Education
The Return of "Separate But Equal"
Preparing for Power: Cultural Capital and Curricula in America's Elite Boarding Schools
Civilize Them with a Stick
Missing in Interaction
Schools and the Social Control of Sexuality
Work & the Economy
Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the 'Female' Professions
Cause of Death: Inequality
The State & Public Policy
Welfare Reform, Family Hardship, and Women of Color
Beyond Crime and Punishment
No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System
The Effects of Affirmative Action on Other Stakeholders
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the "White" Problem in American Studies
Media
Five Decades and Three Hundred Sitcoms about Class and Gender
Winnebagos, Cherokees, Apaches, and Dakotas: The Persistence of Stereotyping of American Indians in American Advertising Brands
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Will Truman? The Feminization of Gay Masculinities on Will & Grace
Metaphors Matter: Disaster Myths, Media Frames, and Their Consequences in Hurricane Katrina
Language & Culture
Racism in the English Language
Self, Identity & the Naming Question: Reflections on the Language of Disability
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Names, Logos, Mascots, and Flags: The Contradictory Uses of Sports Symbols
Violence & Social Control
Climate of Fear
Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape
The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men's Violence
Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism
Experiencing Difference & Inequality in
Everyday Life
Examining the impact of constructions of difference and maintaining inequalities on members of society
Making Systems of Privilege Visible
"Yes, I Follow Islam, But I'm Not a Terrorist"
A Dozen Demons
Always Running
The Story of My Body
Separated by Deportation
"Gee, You Don't Seem Like An Indian From the Reservation"
Living Fearlessly With and Within Differences: My Search for Identity Beyond Categories and Contradictions
Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
I Am Your Welfare Reform
Learning to Fight
Square Pegs: Affronting Reason
Resistance & Social Change
Examining how people working within individual and institutional contexts transform difference from a system of inequality to a system of liberation
Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection
Cultural Resistance: Reconstructing Our Own Images
Good for the Hood?
Seeing More Than Black & White: Latinos, Racism, and the Cultural Divides
Dismantling Environmental Racism in the USA
Feminism Future: Young Feminists of Color Take the Mic
Voices of a New Movimiento