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.
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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