Multicultural Experiences, Multicultural Theories - Softcover

Rogers, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070535604 ISBN 13: 9780070535602

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 1995

Synopsis

This reader in multicultural social theory provides selections from a wide range of multicultural theorists that include Feminist, Queer, Afrocentric, Native American, Chicana, and Asian American perspectives. Rogers begins with an Introduction , then breaks the 38 readings into seven thematic sections, beginning each section with an essay emphasizing the main points of the readings and helping to place those points into a broader theoretical context.Through the readings students come to see that intergroup "differences" are products of the societies and times in which they exist and that often those "differences" can often reveal not only cultural divergence but cultural similarities as well.The book goes beyond the usual class, race, gender approach found in social theory texts. It shows the similarities as well as the dissimilarities between multicultural and other social theorists, highlighting the idea that "theory", though diverse and eclectic, involves individuals of all intellectual and cultural bents commonly turning their consciousness to interpretation and understanding. The book uses the concept of "dignity" to integrate the cultural and theoretical concerns addressed in the readings.

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About the Author

Mary F. Rogers holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is currently a professor of sociology and womens studies at the University of West Florida. She has published in numerous journals, such as The American Journal of Sociology, The American Sociologist, Gender & Society, and Sociological Theory. One of her previous books, Sociology, Ethnomethodology, and Experience: A Phenomenological Critique, was published in the Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association. In addition to devoting her time to both writing and teaching, Professor Rogers has served as a member of the editorial board of Sociological Theory and as secretary-treasurer of the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070535604
• ISBN 13: 9780070535602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 438