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

The Social Construction of Difference and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, Eighth Edition, surveys how and why the categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality are constructed, maintained, experienced, and transformed. This popular anthology moves beyond simply discussing various forms of stratification and the impact on members of marginalized groups by providing a thorough discussion of how such systems of stratification are formed, perpetuated, and interconnected. Each reading ends with critical-thinking questions to help students relate content to their own lives and understand how their attitudes, actions, and perspectives may serve to perpetuate a stratified system.** Indicates New ReadingPrefacePart I: Constructing DifferencesExamining what categories are constructed, how this is done, and why such categories of difference are constructed.Race and Ethnicity1. Racial FormationsMichael Omi and Howard Winant2. Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?Mary C. Waters3. Learning to be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to AdulthoodRoberto G. GonzalesSocial Class**4. The Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth GapAmy Traub, Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Meschede, & Tom Shapiro5. Media Magic: Making Class InvisibleGregory Mantsios**6. Latinos are Each of Us: Fair and Just Immigration Policies for AllNoreen M. Sugrue & Sylvia PuenteSex and Gender7. The Social Construction of GenderJudith Lorber**8. Giving sex: Deconstructing Intersex and Trans Medicalization PracticesGeorgiann Davis, Jodie M. Dewey, Erin L. Murphy9. Transgender and intersex student athletes in women's collegiate sportsPat GriffinSexuality10. naming all the partsKate Bornstein11. if you don't kiss me, you're dumped : boys, boyfriends and heterosexualised masculinities in the primary schoolEmma Renold12. what's so cultural about hookup culture?Lisa WadePart II: Maintaining Ineql£{