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

Tracy E. Ore

McGraw-Hill, 2003 - Social Science - 651 pages

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. The anthology supplies sufficient pedagogical tools to aid the student in understanding how the material relates to her/his own life and how her/his own attitudes, actions, and perspectives may serve to perpetuate a stratified system.

Contents

• CONSTRUCTING DIFFERENCES: 1
• Race and Ethnicity: 18
• For Whites Only?: 28

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality; McGraw-Hill higher education
• Editor: Tracy E. Ore
• Edition: 2, revised
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2003
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Oct 29, 2008
• ISBN: 0767429281, 9780767429283
• Length: 651 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General