Welcome to our Social Inequality publishing program.
Take a look inside at teaching and learning tools that:

  • Reflect our high scholarly standards
  • Speak effectively to today's college students
  • Represent the most current pedagogical trends

Browse our titles for Social Inequality courses by selecting from the topic links below.

Crime & Inequality

Images of Color, Images of Crime

Readings
Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780195330632ISBN10: 0195330633 Paperback , 264 pages
Feb 2007,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$57.95 (04)
This edited volume explores the dynamics of race, crime, and the criminal justice system in the United States today.

Men & Masculinities

Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?

A Debate
ISBN13: 9780195312836ISBN10: 019531283X Paperback , 272 pages
Sep 2007,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$26.95 (01)
The only book of its kind, this volume offers a sharp and provocative debate on the impact of contemporary feminism on men

Manhood in America

A Cultural History
Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780199781553ISBN10: 0199781559 Paperback , 392 pages
Mar 2011,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$44.95 (04)
A leading scholar in the field updates his standard-setting book on the cultural construction of American masculinity

Sexualities

Identities, Behaviors, and Society
ISBN13: 9780195157604ISBN10: 0195157605 Paperback , 512 pages
Feb 2004,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$64.95 (04)

Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality

Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class

Readings for a Changing Landscape
ISBN13: 9780195330670ISBN10: 0195330676 Paperback , 568 pages
Mar 2007,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$69.95 (04)
This accessible collection of readings is arranged to highlight and underscore some of the most intriguing and cutting-edge thinking on the discussion of gender, race, and class.

Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality

Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers
ISBN13: 9780195127478ISBN10: 0195127471 Paperback , 324 pages
Feb 2003,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$49.95 (04)

Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

A Conceptual Framework
Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780195380248ISBN10: 019538024X Paperback , 336 pages
Jul 2009,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$44.95 (04)
Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: A Conceptual Framework, Second Edition, is the only text that uses a theoretical framework to analyze the intersecting nature of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Race & Ethnic Relations

Debating Diversity

Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780195146516ISBN10: 0195146514 Paperback , 272 pages
Jun 2002,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$47.95 (04)

Ethnicity

ISBN13: 9780192892744ISBN10: 0192892746 Paperback , 472 pages
Dec 1996,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$64.95 (04)
Although the term `ethnicity' is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and continent, playing an important role in all societies. Ethnic community and identity are often associated with conflict, but there is no essential connection between ethnicity and strife. This Oxford Reader includes extracts by all the major contributors to the current debates on ethnicity and its worldwide effects, and provides answers to questions such as what is ethnicity and can it be transcended?

Racism

ISBN13: 9780192893000ISBN10: 0192893009 Paperback , 480 pages
Dec 1999,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$49.95 (04)

The Hidden Cost of Being African American

How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
ISBN13: 9780195181388ISBN10: 0195181387 Paperback , 256 pages
Dec 2004,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$19.99 (03)
The author of Black Wealth/White Wealth argues that assets hold the key to understanding how racial inequality is passed down from generation to generation

Race in an Era of Change

A Reader
ISBN13: 9780199752102ISBN10: 0199752109 Paperback , 456 pages
Sep 2010,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$69.95 (04)
A cutting-edge, wide-ranging, and affordable collection of articles on race in the United States today

Channeling Blackness

Studies on Television and Race in America
ISBN13: 9780195167627ISBN10: 0195167627 Paperback , 336 pages
Dec 2004,  In Stock

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$49.95 (04)
Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America presents fifteen classic and contemporary studies of the shifting, complex relationship between popular television and blackness.

Iron Cages

Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
Revised Edition
ISBN13: 9780195137378ISBN10: 019513737X Paperback , 400 pages
Mar 2000,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$49.95 (04)

Americans All

Race and Ethnic Relations in Historical, Structural, and Comparative Perspectives
Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780195330533ISBN10: 0195330536 Hardcover , 430 pages
Apr 2005,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$89.95 (04)
This updated text introduces foundational ideas and concepts about race and ethnic groups and applies them to issues and events relevant to today's college student population.

Race in the 21st Century

Ethnographic Approaches
ISBN13: 9780195375602ISBN10: 0195375602 Paperback , 240 pages
Nov 2009,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$34.95 (04)
The first text to take an explicitly ethnographic approach to the study of race

Social Stratification

The Power Elite

New Edition
ISBN13: 9780195133547ISBN10: 0195133544 Paperback , 448 pages
Dec 1999,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$19.95 (03)

America Transformed

Globalization, Inequality, and Power
ISBN13: 9780195173000ISBN10: 0195173007 Paperback , 256 pages
Feb 2007,  In Stock

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$39.95 (04)
By examining the social construction of globalization, America Transformed provides powerful insights into the contested dialectical relationship between global and local forces.

Rigging the Game

How Inequality Is Reproduced in Everyday Life
ISBN13: 9780195333008ISBN10: 0195333004 Paperback , 368 pages
Sep 2007,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$34.95 (04)
A brief, accessible introduction to the study of inequality in American society

Sociology of Aging

Social Gerontology Today

An Introduction
ISBN13: 9780195330137ISBN10: 0195330137 Hardcover , 508 pages
Mar 2007,  In Stock

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$114.95 (04)
A comprehensive text that combines sound pedagogy with cutting-edge research to cover the major social, psychological, and biological perspectives on aging and old age.

Intersections of Aging

Readings in Social Gerontology
ISBN13: 9780195329803ISBN10: 0195329805 Paperback , 474 pages
Apr 2007,  In Stock

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$89.95 (04)
An interdisciplinary, student-accessible anthology that explores the diversity of experiences in aging--integrating ethnic, gender, economic status, sexual orientation, and historical variations.

Sociology of Gender / Gender Inequality

Workplace/Women's Place

Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780195335262ISBN10: 0195335260 Paperback , 383 pages
Feb 2006,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$69.95 (04)
Taking a lively interdisciplinary approach, this highly accessible anthology probes the continuing challenges that women face as they enter and participate in the world of work.

The Sociology of Gender

A Brief Introduction
Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780195389289ISBN10: 019538928X Paperback , 240 pages
Jan 2010,  In Stock

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$49.95 (04)
Now in a new edition, this brief gender studies text provides expanded coverage of cutting-edge topics including masculinity, intersectionality, and the body

Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?

A Debate
ISBN13: 9780195312836ISBN10: 019531283X Paperback , 272 pages
Sep 2007,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$26.95 (01)
The only book of its kind, this volume offers a sharp and provocative debate on the impact of contemporary feminism on men

One of the Guys

Girls, Gangs, and Gender
ISBN13: 9780195130782ISBN10: 0195130782 Paperback , 288 pages
Oct 2000,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$49.95 (04)

The Gendered Society Reader

Fifth Edition
ISBN13: 9780199927494ISBN10: 0199927499 Paperback , 656 pages
Feb 2013,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$69.95 (04)
A highly balanced gender studies reader, with a new chapter on politics

Gender Inequality

Feminist Theories and Politics
Fifth Edition
ISBN13: 9780199859085ISBN10: 0199859086 Paperback , 352 pages
Dec 2011,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$54.95 (04)
An overview of feminism by a "founding mother" of the field

Gendered Worlds

Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780199774043ISBN10: 0199774048 Paperback , 544 pages
Jul 2011,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$74.95 (04)
The most global, intersectional gender text on the market

Gender Through the Prism of Difference

Fourth Edition
ISBN13: 9780199743025ISBN10: 0199743029 Paperback , 544 pages
Jul 2010,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$69.95 (04)
The most intersectional and global reader on the market

Manhood in America

A Cultural History
Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780199781553ISBN10: 0199781559 Paperback , 392 pages
Mar 2011,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$44.95 (04)
A leading scholar in the field updates his standard-setting book on the cultural construction of American masculinity

The Cult of Thinness

Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780195178784ISBN10: 0195178785 Paperback , 288 pages
Oct 2006,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$39.95 (04)
This powerful text goes beyond traditional psychological explanations of eating disorders to level a powerful indictment against the social, political, and economic pressures women face in a weight-obsessed society.

The Gendered Society

Fifth Edition
ISBN13: 9780199927463ISBN10: 0199927464 Paperback , 528 pages
Dec 2012,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$74.95 (04)
The most balanced and up-to-date gender text on the market

The Gendered Society Reader

Fourth Edition
ISBN13: 9780199733712ISBN10: 0199733716 Paperback , 656 pages
Jan 2010,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$69.95 (04)
The most balanced gender studies reader available, now with a new section on religion

Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives

Original Readings
ISBN13: 9780195329988ISBN10: 0195329988 Paperback , 520 pages
Nov 2000,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$77.95 (04)
A collection of original essays written expressly for this volume by eminent gender scholars.

Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The New Basics
Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780199934508ISBN10: 0199934509 Paperback , 448 pages
Jul 2012,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$49.95 (04)
Sex, gender, and sexuality through the prism of race, ethnicity, religion, ability, age, and class

The Gendered Society

Fourth Edition
ISBN13: 9780195399028ISBN10: 0195399021 Paperback , 480 pages
Dec 2009,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$74.95 (04)
The most balanced gender studies text available, now with a new chapter on religion

Sociology of Sexuality

Speaking of Sexuality

Interdisciplinary Readings
Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780195389494ISBN10: 0195389492 Paperback , 704 pages
Aug 2009,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$84.95 (04)
The most research-oriented and interdisciplinary sexuality anthology available
ISBN13: 9780199298020ISBN10: 0199298025 Paperback , 160 pages
May 2008,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$11.95 (03)

Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality

Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers
ISBN13: 9780195127478ISBN10: 0195127471 Paperback , 324 pages
Feb 2003,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$49.95 (04)

Sexualities

Identities, Behaviors, and Society
ISBN13: 9780195157604ISBN10: 0195157605 Paperback , 512 pages
Feb 2004,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$64.95 (04)

Sociology of the Body

The Politics of Women's Bodies

Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior
Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780195390636ISBN10: 0195390636 Paperback , 368 pages
Sep 2009,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$49.95 (04)
A cutting-edge anthology on power and women's bodies, edited by a leading scholar in the field

Sociology of the Body

A Reader
ISBN13: 9780195425482ISBN10: 0195425480 Paperback , 480 pages
May 2008,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$69.95 (04)
Working from a sociological perspective, Sociology of the Body: A Reader provides students with a broad overview of the theories of the body and substantive body issues.

The Cult of Thinness

Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780195178784ISBN10: 0195178785 Paperback , 288 pages
Oct 2006,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$39.95 (04)
This powerful text goes beyond traditional psychological explanations of eating disorders to level a powerful indictment against the social, political, and economic pressures women face in a weight-obsessed society.

Gendered Bodies

Feminist Perspectives
Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780199732456ISBN10: 0199732450 Paperback , 256 pages
Jul 2010,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$44.95 (04)
This unique hybrid text/reader--from two of the field's best scholars--provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge introduction to the study of gender and the body

Women & Work

Workplace/Women's Place

Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780195335262ISBN10: 0195335260 Paperback , 383 pages
Feb 2006,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$69.95 (04)
Taking a lively interdisciplinary approach, this highly accessible anthology probes the continuing challenges that women face as they enter and participate in the world of work.