As far as I'm concerned, this book was not worth the money I paid for it. If I didn't have to have it for class, I would have not read past the 2nd chapter. There are a lot of claims made in the book backed up with qualitative studies and with quantitative studies, but there are some claims that are not backed up at all. I'm chary of books like this. It seemed like this was written from a liberal perspective rather than from a purely objective standpoint. This leads the reader to reconsider the qualitative interpretations of the author.My suggestion, if you must read this for class, double check the references and be careful of using quotes from it.