O'Brien, Jodi. <br/><br/>
Social prisms  reflections on everyday myths and paradoxes 
Jodi O'Brien. 
 - Thousand Oaks Calif.  Pine Forge Press  c1999. 
 - xiii, 254 p.  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0803990316 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98040123  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA0-48696 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social values<br/>Social action<br/>Social role
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM73  / .O27 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.372  / O135s