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

About this book

This best-selling anthology surveys how and why the categories of race class gender and sexuality are constructed maintained experienced and transformed. The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality then moves beyond simply discussing various forms of stratification and the impact of these on members of marginalized groups by providing a thorough discussion of how such systems of stratification are formed perpetuated and interconnected. Readers are then challenged at the end of each reading with critical thinking questions to relate content to their lives and understand how their own attitudes actions and perspectives may serve to perpetuate a stratified system.