1st Edition
Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender Commonsense, Power, and Privilege in the United States
Biography
Celine-Marie Pascale is Assistant Professor of Sociology at American University and an associate of the Center for Social Media. She is Co-President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 25, Language, and Society.
Making Sense of Race, Class, and Gender offers an articulate analysis of some of the most important commonsense structures of everyday life, developing a sociology of language and representation that attends to both local interactional practices and widely-shared discursive formations. Scholars of social stratification, inequality, and social psychology should read this book. If they want to give their students an engaging, empirical examination of how race, class, and gender play out in everyday talk and interaction, this book is definitely for them.
—James A. Holstein, Professor, Marquette University
Pascale provides us with a superb, innovative study of the ways in which ordinary people make sense of race, class, gender, and sexuality in their everyday lives. Pascale's most courageous innovation is to place sociological, ethnographic, and post-modern discursive analysis in conversation with each other, and as tools for analysis, crossing traditionally fixed disciplinary boundaries. This is an eminently readable text in which theory is made clear and accessible, and in which ordinary people speak for themselves.
—Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
