Reddit reviews The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender

> wouldn't that make trans people just bullshitters?

if race is a social construct, wouldn't that make black people just bullshitters?

no, because a social construct isn't the same thing as playing make believe. it's honestly super complex and r/sunbakedsnowcave gave probably the simplest, neatest answer you could hope for already

here's one explanation that's widely -though not universally- accepted

you might need to do some background reading

if you need to do background reading for that, find a soc 101 text on amazon they're like 2 bux and a lot of fun

I honestly wish more social scientists would take some advice from Alice Walker. Holy fucking shit, Butler. Lacan is not someone you should be taking notes on style from.

The Inequality Reader by David Gruskey & Szonja Szelenyi is a fantastic collection of articles on inequality. I used it to study for my doctoral exam in Social Stratification and I still pick it up to read every once and a while. If you don't feel like buying it, you can check out some of the essays in it by just googling some of the titles in google scholar (click the link and then press the "look inside" button amazon offers to check out the contents). The reader features classics like Marx and Weber but also authors like William Julius Wilson, Massey and Denton, Sharon Hays, Hochschild, Laureau and other pretty notable scholars. It also has the added benefit of giving you a taste of some of the different areas of social strat and a good portion of the essays/articles are excerpts from long books, so if you see something you like there's likely an option to read a lot more.

edit: PS if you have a particular area of interest within I'm happy to recommend some books, but if you're getting your feet wet this reader is really great. Where are you in your academic career?

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The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender, 2nd ed edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi

This is a text I use to help tutor sociology. It was referred to me by a professor of sociology who uses it in her graduate classes. It should explain the very basics of race and racial hierarchies/discrimination in the US and other Western states for you. It includes so much more than that as well.

Not a real textbook but a good read ain't no makin' it

I have used this one before berko

inequality reader

very big and probably more for a grad course but nonetheless a good resource grusky