Wiley-Blackwell Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries (Problems in American History S)

Review "O'Brien and Howard have brought together an engaging and lively collection of articles that demonstrate the various ways that people create, re-create, and sometimes challenge social inequalities in our everyday interactions. This collection challenges the current simplistic tendency to see the 'doing of difference' as mere racial, gender, social class, or sexual 'performance'; Instead, the authors in Everyday Inequalities creatively illuminate various situations - in media, workplaces, the arts, or the street-in which people are actively negotiating their identities and their positions within socially-structured contexts of inequality." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California Product Description Thirteen newly published articles on case studies performed by sociologists demonstrating the everyday interactions that reinforce dominance and resistance in modern society. From the Publisher Blackwell PublishersThis fascinating collection of new essays reveals the everyday practice of cultural hierarchies through empirical studies by cutting-edge sociologists. Distancing itself from theoretical pontificating and presuppositions, Everyday Inequalities demonstrates social inequality in a variety of settings through a series of case studies on gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and their complex intersections. It carries throughout the central thesis that a great deal of everyday interactions can be interpreted as expressions of dominance and resistance, and continually reinscribes hierarchies of power and priviledge in society. Combining essays by up and coming scholars as well as more established researchers, Everyday Inequalities uses techniques found in cultural studies and empirical methods of sociological inquiry to demonstrate, rather than theorize, the everyday practices of social inequality. From the Inside Flap This collection provides, the everyday practice of structural and cultural hierarchies is revealed through empirical case studies by cutting edge sociologists. Everyday Inequalities demonstrates practices of dominance and resistance in a variety of settings through a series of essays on gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and their complex intersections. These essays powerfully reveal how these practices continually reinscribe hierarchies of power and privilege in society. Containing essays by up-and-coming scholars as well as more established researchers, Everyday Inequalities uses techniques found in cultural studies and empirical methods of sociological inquiry to theorize the everyday practices of social inequalities through grounded demonstrations and analyses. From the Back Cover This collection provides, the everyday practice of structural and cultural hierarchies is revealed through empirical case studies by cutting edge sociologists. Everyday Inequalities demonstrates practices of dominance and resistance in a variety of settings through a series of essays on gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and their complex intersections. These essays powerfully reveal how these practices continually reinscribe hierarchies of power and privilege in society. Containing essays by up-and-coming scholars as well as more established researchers, Everyday Inequalities uses techniques found in cultural studies and empirical methods of sociological inquiry to theorize the everyday practices of social inequalities through grounded demonstrations and analyses. About the Author Jodi O'Brien is Associate Professor of Sociology at Seattle University. She co-edited with Peter Kollock The Production of Reality, 2nd edition, (1997). She writes and lectures in the area of cultural politics, marginal identities and communities. Judith A. Howard is Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. She lectures and researches in the area of gender and the intersections of gender dynamics with race, class and sexuality. She is cur