Social prisms
Subtitle: reflections on everyday myths and paradoxes
By: Jodi O'Brien.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Social values.; Social role.; Social action.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: The paradox of reduction : some observations on sociology as science; title: The case of the designer genes : reconsidering the nature/nurture binary; title: To belong or not to belong? : paradoxes of community; title: Which box do I check? : paradoxes of social difference; title: How do we cut the American pie? : the myth of meritocracy; title: Family equations : whose family? : whose values?; title: The paradox of value in the age of certainty : reflections on Max Weber and Georg Simmel.