The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and Gender, Social Class, Sexuality, and Disability

by Karen Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle Travis

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How do categories of people come to be seen as “different”? How does being “different” affect people’s lives? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institutions, or society? What difference does “difference” make? The Meaning of Difference offers a conceptual structure and up-to-date readings on the differences distinctive to American life—differences of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexuality, and disability.
  • ISBN13 9780078027024
  • Publish Date 16 March 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Imprint McGraw Hill Higher Education
  • Edition 7th edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 560
  • Language English