Habits of Inequality - Tepperman, Lorne; Gheihman, Nina
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In their highly readable overview, authors Lorne Tepperman and Nina Gheihman look to the social inequalities that arise from class, gender, race, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation. In doing so, they uncover the startling observation that in any given society these various manifestations of inequality show similar patterns, revealing a cultural predisposition (or "habit") that favours and promotes inequality.

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In their highly readable overview, authors Lorne Tepperman and Nina Gheihman look to the social inequalities that arise from class, gender, race, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation. In doing so, they uncover the startling observation that in any given society these various manifestations of inequality show similar patterns, revealing a cultural predisposition (or "habit") that favours and promotes inequality.
Autorenporträt
Lorne Tepperman is the author of The Sense of Sociability: How People Overcome the Forces Pulling Them Apart. Problem Gambling in Canada, and Betting Their Lives: The Close Relations of Problem Gamblers, all published by Oxford University Press. A professor at the University of Toronto, he has taught courses on sociology for over forty years and has published over a dozen textbooks in the field. Nina Gheihman is a graduate student of sociology at the University of Toronto, currently studying how individuals' interactions with the cultural milieu around them contribute to the broadly pattered social inequalities that characterize our society.