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Social Prisms

Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes
  • ISBN-13: 9780803990319
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Jodi O'Brien
  • Price: AUD $233.00
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  • Local release date: 25/01/2007
  • Format: Paperback (228.00mm X 152.00mm) 272 pages Weight: 400g
  • Categories: Anthropology [JHM]
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Social Prisms is a compelling discussion of the paradoxes, tensions and ambiguities which inform the study of sociology. Jodi O'Brien views contemporary social issues as prisms which can be viewed from many different angles. It is this continual questioning which produces paradox. Making frequent reference to popular culture (sports, television, movies) the author examines topics which include: - nature versus nurture - community versus individualism - class and money in America - the place of family - modernity and rationalization This lively book breathes new life into the subject. It provides the sociological tools necessary for negotiating the animated discussions that will be provoked. Readership - Students and academics in sociology, cultural studies and philosophy.
Jodi O'Brien is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at Seattle University. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society and co-editor of the "Contemporary Sociological Perspectives" book series. Her books include The Production of Reality, Social Prisms, and Everyday Inequalities. Her courses and research focus on difference, power and discrimination, and religion and sexuality.
Prologue 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 Epilogue Paradoxes of Subjectivity
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