Sociology Book Summaries

Twitter and Tear Gas Summary
Twitter and Tear Gas
The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci 2017 326 pages
4.08
1.4K ratings
Politics
Technology
Sociology
Punishment Without Crime Summary
Punishment Without Crime
How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
by Alexandra Natapoff 2018 352 pages
4.16
424 ratings
Law
Politics
Social Justice
Heavens on Earth Summary
Heavens on Earth
The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
by Michael Shermer 2018 320 pages
3.88
597 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Religion
Moral Mazes Summary
Moral Mazes
The World of Corporate Managers
by Robert Jackall 1988 272 pages
3.96
448 ratings
Business
Sociology
Psychology
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West Summary
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
by Konstantin Kisin 2022 288 pages
4.26
1.6K ratings
Politics
History
Biography
The Winner-Take-All Society Summary
The Winner-Take-All Society
Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank 1995 288 pages
3.70
254 ratings
Economics
Business
Sociology
The Social Leap Summary
The Social Leap
The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
by William Von Hippel 2018 294 pages
4.24
1.9K ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
The Socialist Manifesto Summary
The Socialist Manifesto
The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara 2019 288 pages
3.62
1.9K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Get Rich or Lie Trying Summary
Get Rich or Lie Trying
Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
by Symeon Brown 2022 304 pages
3.85
852 ratings
Sociology
Economics
Business
Strangers Drowning Summary
Strangers Drowning
Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
by Larissa MacFarquhar 2015 336 pages
3.91
2.8K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
So You Want to Talk About Race Summary
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo 2018 248 pages
4.49
107.0K ratings
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Clothing Poverty Summary
Clothing Poverty
The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes
by Andrew Brooks 2015 288 pages
3.77
169 ratings
Fashion
Economics
Sustainability
Unthinking Summary
Unthinking
The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy
by Harry Beckwith 2011 336 pages
3.46
352 ratings
Business
Psychology
Self Help
The End of the World As We Know It Summary
The End of the World As We Know It
Social Science for the Twenty-First Century
by Immanuel Wallerstein 1999 288 pages
4.06
126 ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
History
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy Summary
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
by Karl Marx 1846 584 pages
4.13
5.1K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Body Project Summary
The Body Project
An Intimate History of American Girls
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg 1997 214 pages
3.82
3.7K ratings
Feminism
History
Sociology
Chavs Summary
Chavs
The Demonization of the Working Class
by Owen Jones 2011 298 pages
4.09
10.3K ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
Smart on Crime Summary
Smart on Crime
A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
by Kamala Harris 2009 205 pages
3.74
320 ratings
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
Race Marxism Summary
Race Marxism
The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis
by James Lindsay 2022 357 pages
4.23
343 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Cult Classics
The Substance of Style Summary
The Substance of Style
How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
by Virginia Postrel 2003 237 pages
3.49
515 ratings
Design
Business
Cultural
Shattered Nation Summary
Shattered Nation
Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State
by Danny Dorling 2023 288 pages
4.04
94 ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
National Identity Summary
National Identity
by Anthony D. Smith 1991 240 pages
3.70
233 ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
Traffic Summary
Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
by Tom Vanderbilt 2008 402 pages
3.72
8.1K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Science of Good and Evil Summary
The Science of Good and Evil
Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
by Michael Shermer 2004 368 pages
3.91
3.1K ratings
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
Too Big to Know Summary
Too Big to Know
Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
by David Weinberger 2012 231 pages
3.80
2.1K ratings
Technology
Science
Philosophy
Virtually Human Summary
Virtually Human
The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
by Martine Rothblatt 2014 368 pages
3.48
179 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Technology
Everything is Obvious Summary
Everything is Obvious
Once You Know the Answer
by Duncan J. Watts 2011 352 pages
3.80
4.8K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Democracy Summary
Democracy
The God That Failed
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 2001 304 pages
4.15
2.4K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
Sex by Numbers Summary
Sex by Numbers
What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour
by David Spiegelhalter 2015 369 pages
3.86
199 ratings
Science
Sexuality
Psychology
Thanks a Thousand Summary
Thanks a Thousand
A Gratitude Journey
by A.J. Jacobs 2018 160 pages
3.73
3.2K ratings
Memoir
Self Help
Humor
The English Summary
The English
A Portrait of a People
by Jeremy Paxman 1998 309 pages
3.56
2.5K ratings
History
British Literature
Politics
Albion's Seed Summary
Albion's Seed
Four British Folkways in America
by David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 pages
4.37
3.4K ratings
History
American History
American
توتالیتاریسم Summary
توتالیتاریسم
by Hannah Arendt 1968 365 pages
4.16
758 ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Kids These Days Summary
Kids These Days
Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
by Malcolm Harris 2017 261 pages
3.78
2.3K ratings
Economics
Sociology
Politics
The Invisible Gorilla Summary
The Invisible Gorilla
And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
by Christopher Chabris 2010 320 pages
3.91
14.8K ratings
Psychology
Science
Business
The Third Chimpanzee Summary
The Third Chimpanzee
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by Jared Diamond 1991 407 pages
4.08
28.2K ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
Suspicious Minds Summary
Suspicious Minds
Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
by Rob Brotherton 2015 304 pages
3.88
1.5K ratings
Psychology
Science
History
Selfie Summary
Selfie
How the West Became Self-Obsessed
by Will Storr 2017 416 pages
3.92
3.6K ratings
Psychology
Sociology
History
Glass House Summary
Glass House
The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by Brian Alexander 2017 336 pages
3.91
1.8K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Our Kids Summary
Our Kids
The American Dream in Crisis
by Robert D. Putnam 2015 386 pages
4.04
4.3K ratings
Sociology
Education
Politics
Heaven Is a Place on Earth Summary
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
by Adrian Shirk 2022 352 pages
3.97
200 ratings
Memoir
History
Essays
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance Summary
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
by Leon Festinger 1957 239 pages
4.04
181 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Bursts Summary
Bursts
The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
by Albert-László Barabási 2010 310 pages
3.31
1.1K ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
Growth Summary
Growth
A Reckoning
by Daniel Susskind 2024
3.79
449 ratings
Economics
History
Business
Linked Summary
Linked
How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
by Albert-László Barabási 2002 304 pages
3.94
5.2K ratings
Science
Business
Sociology
Labor of Love Summary
Labor of Love
The Invention of Dating
by Moira Weigel 2016 304 pages
3.70
1.3K ratings
History
Feminism
Sociology
The Slow Fix Summary
The Slow Fix
Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed
by Carl Honoré 2013 336 pages
3.61
495 ratings
Business
Self Help
Personal Development
Our Culture, What's Left of It Summary
Our Culture, What's Left of It
The Mandarins and the Masses
by Theodore Dalrymple 2005 356 pages
4.14
1.5K ratings
Politics
Essays
Philosophy
The Social Sex Summary
The Social Sex
A History of Female Friendship
by Marilyn Yalom 2015 400 pages
3.16
296 ratings
History
Feminism
Womens
Drunk Summary
Drunk
How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
by Edward Slingerland 2021 369 pages
3.81
2.9K ratings
History
Science
Sociology
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