For many years the dominant focus in gender relations has been the differences between men and women. Authors such as Deborah Tannen (You Just Don't Understand) and John Gray (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus) have argued that there are deep-seated and enduring differences between male and female personalities, styles, even languages. Elizabeth Aries sees the issue as more complex and dependent on several variables, among them the person's status, role, goals, conversational partners, and the characteristics of the situational context. Aries discusses why we emphasize...
For many years the dominant focus in gender relations has been the differences between men and women. Authors such as Deborah Tannen (You Just Don...
In "Race and Class Matters at an Elite College", Elizabeth Aries provides a rare glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. Based on an intensive study Aries conducted with 58 students at Amherst College during the 2005-2006 academic year, this book offers a uniquely personal look at the day-to-day thoughts and feelings of students as they experience racial and economic diversity firsthand, some for the first time.Through online questionnaires and face-to-face interviews, Aries...
In "Race and Class Matters at an Elite College", Elizabeth Aries provides a rare glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students...
Offers a glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together as freshmen. This book chronicles what they learned from racial and class diversity - and what colleges might do to help their students learn more.
Offers a glimpse into the challenges faced by black and white college students from widely different class backgrounds as they come to live together a...
In "Speaking of Race and Class," the follow-up volume to her groundbreaking "Race and Class Matters at an Elite College," Elizabeth Aries completes her four-year study of diversity at a prestigious liberal arts college. Here, the 58 studentsOCoaffluent, lower-income, black, and whiteOCothat Aries has interviewed since they were Amherst freshmen provide a complete picture of what and how each group learned about issues of race and class.
Aries presents the studentsOCO personal perceptions of their experiences. She reveals the extent to which learning from diversity takes place on campus,...
In "Speaking of Race and Class," the follow-up volume to her groundbreaking "Race and Class Matters at an Elite College," Elizabeth Aries completes...
In this follow-up volume to her groundbreaking 'Race and Class Matters at an Elite College', Elizabeth Aries completes her four-year study of diversity at a prestigious liberal arts college. The 58 students - affluent, lower-income, black and white - that Aries has interviewed since they were Amherst freshmen provide a complete picture of what and how each group learned about issues of race and class. Aries presents the students' personal perceptions of their experiences. She reveals what the extent to which learning from diversity takes place on campus, and examines the distinct challenges...
In this follow-up volume to her groundbreaking 'Race and Class Matters at an Elite College', Elizabeth Aries completes her four-year study of diversit...
