TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Brien,Jodi
TI  - Social prisms: reflections on everyday myths and paradoxes
SN  - 0803990316 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
AV  - HM73 .O27 1999
U1  - 303.372 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Thousand Oaks Calif.
PB  - Pine Forge Press
KW  - Social values
KW  - Local
KW  - Social action
KW  - Social role
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index; 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
ER  -