Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality

by Michèle Lamont

Book Overview

How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality?

In this pioneering collection of original essays, a group of leading scholars helps set the agenda for the sociology of culture by exploring the factors that push us to segregate and integrate and the institutional arrangements that shape classification systems. Each examines the power of culture to shape our everyday lives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226468143
• ISBN13: 9780226468143
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"