Middle-Class Squeeze: Is more government aid needed? Gay Marriage Showdowns: Will voters bar marriage for same-sex couples? These are just a few of the provocative questions contested in Issues in Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class. This engaging reader allows students to see an issue from all sides and to think critically about topics that matter to them. Diversity and Society Author : Joseph F. Diversity and Society: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, Fifth Edition explores the history and contemporary status of racial and ethnic groups in the U.
In addition, the book includes comparative, cross-national coverage of group relations. For use as a basic text in courses on race and ethnic relations, minorities, or race, ethnicity and gender in sociology departments, Healey's Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class has perennially been one of the top-sellers in the field.
The writing style and numerous features have resulted in an accessible and popular book for undergraduates. The Second Edition of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Selected Readings offers 36 total readings featuring comprehensive, varied, and highly accessible views of the problems of racism and sexism in American society. Editors Joseph F. Healey and Eileen T. O'Brien present a variety of perspectives on some of pressing problems: racism and prejudice, inequality and discrimination, and assimilation and pluralism.
This new edition includes historical perspectives, case studies of minority groups, a strong emphasis on gender, clashing perspectives on contemporary problems, and a chapter on solutions. S; and makes effective use of contemporary including open access sources of information about these issues. The volume is structured in five parts containing 64 readings.
The first part includes classic pieces covering key concepts, historical viewpoints and theories around gender, class, disability, sexuality and race.
The second part focuses on identity and the social construction of race, gender, sexuality and social class. The third part tackles the macro-level of society. It explores social institutions and the perpetuation of inequality by analyzing family, education, economy and employment, health care and medicine, media and politics and government. The fourth section unpacks power and privilege relationships, illustrating the history of stratification and segregation in the USA and the consequences of inequality.
The final part engages with empowerment and social change, discussing various strategies to lessen the effects of social inequality. The contributions consider micro-, meso- and macro-levels of social change. Susan Ferguson does a fine job as the editor of the collection, introducing each text and connecting the readings by topics in the five parts of the compilation. Each reading is preceded by a paragraph from the editor, providing information about the author and the scholar's affiliation, the source of the excerpt, the main idea of the text and how it relates to other readings.
At the end of each reading, there are discussion questions for teaching and learning purposes. The readings address the theme from distinct yet complementary perspectives, i.
These diverse backgrounds and perspectives increase the breadth of the book. For example, in the second part, which focuses on identity, with subsections on identity formation, identity and social interaction and identity construction and stigma management, there are readings engaging with a psychological perspective while others take a structural and social standpoint to understand identity.
Similarly, the cases embrace a variety of groups within the USA Native Americans, white middle-class Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, Muslim and Arab Americans, homeless people, various age groups — pre-school, high school, youth, adults and the elderly —, homosexual and heterosexual normativity, etc.
The range of cases studied shows the ways in which intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality operate in both individual lives and communities. I have a particular interest on intersectionality and work processes; therefore, I shall highlight the subsection on the economy and employment in part three of the book. This section analyzes social institutions and the perpetuation of inequality.
Joan Acker's text Reading 37 is essential to understand how inequalities are produced and reproduced in organizations. This is followed by Bertrand and Mullainathan's chapter Reading 38 that explores racial discrimination in the labour market in the USA. The study suggests that employers use race as a factor when screening curriculum vitas, which ultimately tells us that employers are in fact materially complicit to the racialization of discrimination through workplace practices of recruitment.
Hondagneu-Sotelo Reading 39 describes new transnational family forms among Central American and Mexican immigrant women living and working in the USA, while their children and other family members remain in their countries of origin. Known for its clear and engaging writing, the bestselling Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class has been thoroughly updated to be fresher, more relevant, and more accessible to undergraduates. The Eighth Edition retains the same use of sociological theory to tell the story of race and other socially constructed inequalities in the U.
This edition also puts greater emphasis on intersectionality, gender, and sexual orientation that will offer students a deeper understanding of diversity. New to this Edition New co-author Andi Stepnick adds fresh perspectives from her teaching and research on race, gender, social movements, and popular culture. The text has been thoroughly updated from hundreds of new sources to reflect the latest research, current events, and changes in U. Census, Gallup, and Pew.
How can we create a feminism that doesn't turn into yet another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, we have to unpack the ways different forms of oppression intersect with one another: class, race, gender, sexuality, disability, and ecology, to name only a few. By arguing that there is no single factor, or arche, explaining the oppression of women, Chiara Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist philosophy inspired by two major claims: that there is something specific to the oppression of women, and that, in order to fight that, we need to untangle all other forms of oppression and the anthropocentrism they inhabit.
Anarchism needs feminism to address the continued subordination of all femina, but feminism needs anarchism if it does not want to become the privilege of a few. Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and deimperial position and for a renewed awareness of the somatic communism connecting all different life forms on the planet. In this new revolutionary vision, feminism does not mean the liberation of the lucky few, but liberation for all living creatures from both capitalist exploitation and an androcentric politics of domination.
Either all or none of us will be free. Score: 4. No single social science discipline 'owns' identity research which makes it a difficult topic to categorize. The SAGE Handbook of Identities systematizes this complex field by incorporating its interdisciplinary character to provide a comprehensive overview of its themes in contemporary research while still acknowledging the historical and philosophical significance of the concept of identity. Drawing on a global scholarship the Handbook has four parts: Frameworks: presents the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in identities research.
Formations: covers the major formative forces for identities such as culture, globalisation, migratory patterns, biology and so on. Categories: reviews research on the core social categories central to identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and intersections between these.
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