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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 'This is a superb book. By presenting basic sociological topics in terms of the paradoxes they contain, O'Brien situates the discipline and its subject matter in historical and intellectual context, while using examples that are contemporary, accessible, and of interest and relevance to students. I look forward to using Social Prisms in my sociology courses and to the animated class discussions that I'm sure her book will engender.' --Anita Ilta Garey, University of New Hampshire'''Pine Forge Press has done it again! Social Prisms bolsters the well-deserved reputation of Pine Forge Press for publishing serious and innovative yet interesting and accessible works for undergraduate sociology courses. Students will enjoy O'Brien's frequent references to the popular culture (sports, television, movies) which is so central to their existence outside the classroom, and be challenged by her call to embrace rather than resolve the many paradoxes of contemporary social life in America.' --David Yamane, University of Notre Dame '' '''' Zusammenfassung Social Prisms is a 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
