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

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.

• Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the Human Services
• Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice
• National Geographic Learning Reader: Cultural Identity in America (with Printed Access Card) (National Geographic Learning Reader series)
• Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice
• Empowerment Series: Essential Research Methods for Social Work
• The Brief Bedford Reader
• Social Inequality
• Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional
• ACA Ethical Standards Casebook, Seventh Edition
• Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions