Within the handbook edited by the same Author (see: “Sociologia delle differenze e delle disuguaglianze”), this chapter, after a definition of the concept of social differences, concentrates the attention on the process of social and institutional construction of differences, with a particular focus on differences based on gender, age, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Then it develops some considerations about the consequences of the process of differentiation, with a specific attention to the relationship between social differences and social inequalities. Finally, it takes into consideration the question of the government of a society as a system of differences.
Zanfrini, L., Le differenze sociali, in Zanfrini, L. (ed.), Sociologia delle differenze e delle disuguaglianze, Zanichelli, Bologna 2011: 1- 25 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/9049]
Le differenze sociali
Zanfrini, Laura
2011
Abstract
Within the handbook edited by the same Author (see: “Sociologia delle differenze e delle disuguaglianze”), this chapter, after a definition of the concept of social differences, concentrates the attention on the process of social and institutional construction of differences, with a particular focus on differences based on gender, age, ethnicity and sexual orientation. Then it develops some considerations about the consequences of the process of differentiation, with a specific attention to the relationship between social differences and social inequalities. Finally, it takes into consideration the question of the government of a society as a system of differences.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.