Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach - Softcover

Stuber, Jenny

 
9780199331123: Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach
Softcover
ISBN 10: 019933112X ISBN 13: 9780199331123
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 2015

Synopsis

Exploring Inequality: A Sociological Approach uses a sociological lens to explore the topics of diversity and social inequality. This sociological perspective demonstrates how social identities--like sex, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, social class, and disability status--are socially constructed. The book also focuses on social inequality, illustrating how individual forces at the micro-level--along with structural factors on the macro-level--often perpetuate inequalities. In so doing, it shows that power and privilege, along with face-to-face meetings and interactions, structure the unequal worlds in which we live. Exploring Inequality explains how identities and inequalities that we take for granted are never static, but always changing-and how everyday examples of activism work to erode these inequalities.

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About the Author

Jenny Stuber is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Florida. In addition to her book, Inside the College Gates (2011), her research has appeared in Sociological Forum, The Journal of Contemporary Sociology, The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Teaching in Higher Education.

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Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
019933112X
ISBN 13 
9780199331123
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
470