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Social Prisms: Reflections on Everyday Myths and Paradoxes
Author(s): Jodi O′Brien (Author)
- Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication Date: 30 April 1999
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0803990316
- ISBN-13: 9780803990319
Book Description
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
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About the Author
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.
