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

The Meaning of Difference focuses on the social construction of difference as it operates in American formulations of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexual orientation, and disability. The conceptual structure of this text-reader comes from four framework essays that addressing the construction of difference, the experience of difference, the social meaning of difference, and social actions that might bridge differences. Each framework essay is followed by a set of readings selected for readability, conceptual depth, and applicability to a variety of statuses. Boxed inserts throughout offer first-person accounts, many of them from students. The readings in this edition, which include twenty-four new readings and ten new personal accounts, have been selected to speak to contemporary assumptions of a “post-racial” America.

• Inequality and Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender
• To Be Frank Diego
• Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
• Culture and Identity: Life Stories for Counselors and Therapists
• Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy
• Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment)
• Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy, Third Edition
• Man's Search for Meaning
• Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes
• Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level: Individuals and Families