A collection of readings that offers an integrated and comparative examination of contemporary American constructions of race, sex, social class, and sexual orientation. The book is divided into three sections, each beginning with an essay, written by the editors, providing a broad conceptual framework with which to approach the readings. Section I, "Constructing Categories of Difference", with subsections on race, sex, class, and sexual orientation, tries to answer the question "what is....?" Section II deals with "Experiencing Difference", with readings and first hand accounts written specifically for this book. Section III, "The Meaning of Difference", offers subsections on Law and Politics which includes an essay summarizing Supreme Court Cases, and also subsections on the Economy, Science, and Popular Culture. As opposed to most books which emphasize victimization and oppression, Rosenblum and Travis include what is positive about being a member of a particular group, promoting a sense of hopefulness about peoples ability to change themselves and the world around them.

The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation

Politics & Social Sciences

Rosenblum, Karen E.

Social Sciences

McGraw-Hill College

The Meaning of Difference, is a combined text-reader about the social construction of difference as that operates in American formulations of race, sex and gender, social class, and sexual orientation. It is premised on the conviction that similar processes are operating when we see difference of color, gender, class, and sexuality and that these processes likely also apply to other master statuses such as disability, ethnicity, or national-origin. Three framework essays provide the conceptual structure for the book. Each framework essay is followed by a set of readings that illustrate the concepts developed in the essays. Readings have been selected because they offer analyses that are generalizable to a variety of statuses.

Biographies & Memoirs

Travis, Toni-Michelle C.

Arts & Literature

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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.

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

Anthropology

McGraw-Hill.

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