Social prisms reflections on everyday myths and paradoxes / Jodi O'Brien.

Author/creator O'Brien, Jodi
Format Electronic
Publication InfoThousand Oaks Calif. : Pine Forge Press,
Descriptionxiii, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents The paradox of reduction : some observations on sociology as science -- The case of the designer genes : reconsidering the nature/nurture binary -- To belong or not to belong? : paradoxes of community -- Which box do I check? : paradoxes of social difference -- How do we cut the American pie? : the myth of meritocracy -- Family equations : whose family? : whose values? -- The paradox of value in the age of certainty : reflections on Max Weber and Georg Simmel.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 98040123
ISBN0803990316 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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