Sociology

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sociology
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The Sociological Imagination
by C. Wright Mills
990 members
2 reviews
4.1
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Sociology
by Anthony Giddens
480 members
½ 3.7
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt
27,149 members
474 reviews
3.8
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Suicide
by Émile Durkheim
1,369 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by Max Weber
4,405 members
32 reviews
3.8
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
by Erving Goffman
2,250 members
17 reviews
4
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
by Erving Goffman
1,073 members
13 reviews
4.1
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
7,639 members
43 reviews
4.1
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by Pierre Bourdieu
1,640 members
9 reviews
4
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Thorstein Veblen
2,523 members
25 reviews
3.8
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by Sudhir Venkatesh
1,608 members
50 reviews
3.9
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12
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. Du Bois
6,192 members
73 reviews
4.2
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13
The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan
5,138 members
55 reviews
3.8
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14
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
by bell hooks
1,531 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
5,092 members
37 reviews
4
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by Michel Foucault
3,695 members
28 reviews
3.8
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18
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
7,222 members
283 reviews
3.9
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
23,609 members
343 reviews
3.8
20
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,790 members
408 reviews
4.1
21
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
11,741 members
231 reviews
½ 3.7
22
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared M. Diamond
13,374 members
190 reviews
3.9
23
Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
18,165 members
449 reviews
3.9
24
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
13,138 members
180 reviews
3.9
25
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
22,848 members
394 reviews
½ 3.7
26
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
by Peter L. Berger
1,895 members
13 reviews
4.1
27
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D. Putnam
3,209 members
34 reviews
3.8
28
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
6,420 members
93 reviews
4.1
29
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer
2,672 members
38 reviews
4.2
30
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
by Émile Durkheim
1,747 members
6 reviews
3.8
31
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
13,465 members
527 reviews
4
32
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
8,820 members
397 reviews
½ 3.7
33
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Jane Jacobs
4,843 members
47 reviews
½ 4.3
34
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell
1,455 members
22 reviews
3.9
35
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
4,302 members
227 reviews
½ 4.4
36
Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler
2,885 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
37
Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective
by Peter L. Berger
767 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
39
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
by Hans H. Gerth
997 members
1 review
3.9
40
The Division of Labor in Society
by Émile Durkheim
978 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
41
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,220 members
198 reviews
½ 4.4
42
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
by Robert N. Bellah
1,518 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
43
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
by Kate Fox
2,554 members
63 reviews
3.8
44
Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks
1,652 members
25 reviews
½ 3.4
45
The Rules of Sociological Method
by Émile Durkheim
815 members
7 reviews
3.8
46
The Power Elite
by C. Wright Mills
997 members
11 reviews
4
47
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay
2,954 members
43 reviews
3.8
48
No Logo
by Naomi Klein
7,085 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
50
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner
1,420 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
51
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
by Studs Terkel
2,348 members
24 reviews
4.2
52
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
3,317 members
78 reviews
4.1
53
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell
6,005 members
139 reviews
3.8
54
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
by Erving Goffman
908 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
55
The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx
17,981 members
163 reviews
½ 3.5
56
Crowds and Power
by Elias Canetti
1,585 members
16 reviews
4.2
57
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,280 members
460 reviews
4.1
58
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by Malcolm Gladwell
5,168 members
127 reviews
½ 3.7
59
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch
1,732 members
19 reviews
3.9
60
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
by Naomi Wolf
3,711 members
32 reviews
3.8
61
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
by Malcolm Gladwell
4,422 members
139 reviews
½ 3.7
62
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by Herbert Marcuse
2,502 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
63
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
by David Riesman
564 members
10 reviews
3.8
64
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
by Michel Foucault
6,416 members
34 reviews
3.9
65
Escape from Freedom
by Erich Fromm
2,737 members
28 reviews
4
66
The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
by Peter L. Berger
986 members
4 reviews
4
67
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman
13,867 members
171 reviews
½ 3.7
68
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich
1,822 members
56 reviews
½ 3.4
69
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
by David Brooks
1,820 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
70
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
6,830 members
150 reviews
½ 4.4
71
The Closing of the American Mind
by Allan Bloom
4,761 members
32 reviews
½ 3.6
72
Understanding Media
by Marshall McLuhan
3,177 members
26 reviews
3.9
73
Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud
6,440 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
74
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by Stephanie Coontz
1,123 members
15 reviews
3.8
75
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
by Alex Kotlowitz
1,610 members
20 reviews
4.2
76
Economy and Society [complete]
by Max Weber
662 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
77
Status Anxiety
by Alain de Botton
2,587 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
78
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
1,965 members
78 reviews
½ 3.6
79
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by Benedict Anderson
3,930 members
33 reviews
4
80
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin DiAngelo
5,810 members
160 reviews
3.9
81
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by Barry Schwartz
3,112 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
82
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
1,930 members
122 reviews
3.8
83
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
by Richard J. Herrnstein
1,658 members
17 reviews
½ 3.4
84
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
5,314 members
29 reviews
4.2
85
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
by Desmond Morris
3,216 members
59 reviews
3.8
86
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
3,004 members
22 reviews
4
87
The Third Wave
by Alvin Toffler
1,488 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
88
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
by Jonathan Kozol
1,378 members
11 reviews
4.2
89
Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge
by Karl Mannheim
616 members
2 reviews
3.8
90
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser
2,019 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
91
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by Nancy Isenberg
2,746 members
89 reviews
½ 3.6
92
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman
2,156 members
23 reviews
3.9
93
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler
1,455 members
23 reviews
4
94
The Sociology of Religion
by Max Weber
547 members
½ 3.6
95
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
5,551 members
117 reviews
4.2
96
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond
2,361 members
51 reviews
½ 3.6
97
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
1,340 members
21 reviews
3.9
98
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
by Richard Sennett
719 members
8 reviews
3.8
99
Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
4,733 members
87 reviews
4
100
The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
3,960 members
54 reviews
3.8