JOHNSON, ALLAN ( 2001), Privilege, Power, and Difference, McGraw-Hill.  This text provides us with an easily applied theoretical model for thinking about systems of privilege and difference. (For more information click on the provided link)

LAMONT, MICHELE et al. (eds.) (1993), Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality, University of Chicago Press.  This collection seeks to account for the boundaries created between groups in society and the resulting social inequality by exploring the factors that push to segregation and integration. (For more information click on the provided link)

LAMONT MICHELE (ed.) (1999), The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries, University of Chicago Press.  This text is concerned with addressing the cultural dimensions of racial inequality by redirecting research and cultural analysis towards a new understanding of how cultural structures articulate the black/white problem. (For more information click on the provided link)

LAMONT, MICHELE (2000), The Dignity of Working Men Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration, Harvard University Press.  In interviewing black and white working-class men with limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, the author constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society. (For more information click on the provided link)

TOURAINE, ALAIN & MacEY, DAVID (2000), Can We Live Together? Equality and Difference (Translated David MacEy) Stanford University Press.  This text explores the question of how we may live together when societies are characterized by difference that is put under pressure by placing an emphasis on the “subject”, a personal life-project to minimize the homogenizing effects of globalization.