Sociology Book Summaries

Freakonomics Summary
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt 2005 268 pages
4.01
880.8K ratings
Economics
Business
Science
Free Speech Summary
Free Speech
A Very Short Introduction
by Nigel Warburton 2009 128 pages
3.63
847 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Solitude Summary
Solitude
A Singular Life in a Crowded World
by Michael Harris 2017 256 pages
3.67
2.1K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Triumphs of Experience Summary
Triumphs of Experience
The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
by George E. Vaillant 2012 457 pages
4.15
1.1K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Golem Summary
The Golem
What You Should Know about Science
by Harry Collins 1992 212 pages
3.77
329 ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
Less Than Nothing Summary
Less Than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
by Slavoj Žižek 2012 1056 pages
4.17
609 ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Politics
Six Degrees Summary
Six Degrees
The Science of a Connected Age
by Duncan J. Watts 2003 384 pages
3.90
1.2K ratings
Science
Sociology
Mathematics
How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life Summary
How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life
by Robert Skidelsky 2012 218 pages
3.57
1.7K ratings
Economics
Philosophy
Politics
Fist Stick Knife Gun Summary
Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
by Geoffrey Canada 1995 179 pages
4.03
3.0K ratings
Memoir
Graphic Novels
Education
Anarchy, State, and Utopia Summary
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
by Robert Nozick 1974 367 pages
3.75
5.9K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Stories Are Weapons Summary
Stories Are Weapons
Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
by Annalee Newitz 2024 246 pages
3.96
659 ratings
Politics
History
Psychology
Silent Coup Summary
Silent Coup
How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
by Claire Provost 2023 296 pages
4.36
188 ratings
Politics
History
Economics
How Change Happens Summary
How Change Happens
by Cass R. Sunstein 2019 344 pages
3.11
185 ratings
Politics
Psychology
Economics
The Challenger Launch Decision Summary
The Challenger Launch Decision
Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
by Diane Vaughan 1996 592 pages
4.09
432 ratings
History
Science
Space
American Marxism Summary
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin 2021 317 pages
4.17
4.1K ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
Beyond Human Nature Summary
Beyond Human Nature
How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind
by Jesse J. Prinz 2011 402 pages
3.71
238 ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Breaking the Spell Summary
Breaking the Spell
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel C. Dennett 2006 464 pages
3.89
12.8K ratings
Philosophy
Science
Atheism
المراقبة السائلة Summary
المراقبة السائلة
by Zygmunt Bauman 2012 160 pages
3.79
474 ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Politics
In Our Hands Summary
In Our Hands
A Plan To Replace The Welfare State
by Charles Murray 2006 214 pages
3.74
289 ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
Twilight of the Elites Summary
Twilight of the Elites
America After Meritocracy
by Christopher L. Hayes 2012 304 pages
4.00
6.0K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Dialectic of Enlightenment Summary
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophical Fragments
by Max Horkheimer 1947 304 pages
4.11
7.9K ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
A World Without Police Summary
A World Without Police
How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
by Geo Maher 2021 288 pages
3.98
300 ratings
Politics
Social Justice
Sociology
New Passages Summary
New Passages
Mapping Your Life Across Time
by Gail Sheehy 1995 528 pages
3.69
347 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
How Ideas Spread Summary
How Ideas Spread
by Jonah Berger 2014 6 pages
3.70
369 ratings
Business
Psychology
Science
Politics As a Vocation Summary
Politics As a Vocation
by Max Weber 2013 52 pages
3.79
597 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
The Next America Summary
The Next America
Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
by Paul Taylor 2014 280 pages
3.68
693 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Economics
Corruptible Summary
Corruptible
Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
by Brian Klaas 2021 320 pages
4.18
3.0K ratings
Politics
Psychology
History
The Great Escape Summary
The Great Escape
A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
by Saket Soni 2023 368 pages
4.52
893 ratings
History
Politics
Race
The Wife Drought Summary
The Wife Drought
by Annabel Crabb 2014 288 pages
4.18
3.9K ratings
Feminism
Book Club
Australia
Criminology Summary
Criminology
A Very Short Introduction
by Tim Newburn 2018 160 pages
3.84
138 ratings
Sociology
Crime
Science
تئوری انتخاب Summary
تئوری انتخاب
در آمدی بر روان شناسی امید
by William Glasser 592 pages
4.05
859 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
Freakonomics Summary
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt 2005 268 pages
4.01
880.8K ratings
Economics
Business
Science
The Penguin and the Leviathan Summary
The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
by Yochai Benkler 2011 272 pages
3.70
348 ratings
Business
Economics
Psychology
Who Speaks for Islam? Summary
Who Speaks for Islam?
What a Billion Muslims Really Think
by Dalia Mogahed 2008 204 pages
4.05
1.1K ratings
Islam
Religion
Politics
The Information Diet Summary
The Information Diet
A Case for Conscious Consumption
by Clay A. Johnson 2011 150 pages
3.50
2.0K ratings
Psychology
Technology
Self Help
The Book of Learning and Forgetting Summary
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
by Frank Smith 1998 144 pages
4.08
346 ratings
Education
Psychology
Sociology
The Quiet Damage Summary
The Quiet Damage
QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
by Jesselyn Cook 2024 250 pages
4.46
4.7K ratings
Politics
History
Psychology
Demystifying Islam Summary
Demystifying Islam
Tackling the Tough Questions
by Harris Zafar 2014 218 pages
3.83
29 ratings
Religion
Islam
Sociology
The Happiness Effect Summary
The Happiness Effect
How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost
by Donna Freitas 2017 368 pages
3.33
260 ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Social Media
Spoilt Rotten Summary
Spoilt Rotten
The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
by Theodore Dalrymple 2010 260 pages
3.96
1.1K ratings
Sociology
Politics
Essays
الذرة الاجتماعية Summary
الذرة الاجتماعية
لماذا يزداد الأثرياء ثراءً والفقراء فقرًا؟
by Mark Buchanan 2007 333 pages
3.70
538 ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
The Perfect Swarm Summary
The Perfect Swarm
The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life
by Len Fisher 2009 288 pages
3.51
319 ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
The Tyranny of Experts Summary
The Tyranny of Experts
Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
by William Easterly 2014 416 pages
3.87
1.3K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Red Web Summary
The Red Web
The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
by Andrei Soldatov 2015 384 pages
3.95
675 ratings
Politics
Russia
History
Like, Comment, Subscribe Summary
Like, Comment, Subscribe
How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture
by Mark Bergen 2022 464 pages
3.73
1.0K ratings
Business
Technology
History
Superbloom Summary
Superbloom
How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
by Nicholas Carr 2025 272 pages
4.06
587 ratings
Technology
Sociology
Psychology
Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths―and How We Can Stop Summary
Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths―and How We Can Stop
by Bill Eddy 2019 192 pages
3.81
118 ratings
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Mismeasure of Woman Summary
Mismeasure of Woman
Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
by Carol Tavris 1992 400 pages
4.06
426 ratings
Feminism
Psychology
Science
The Velvet Rope Economy Summary
The Velvet Rope Economy
How Inequality Became Big Business
by Nelson D. Schwartz 2020 352 pages
4.09
1.0K ratings
Economics
Business
Sociology
You May Also Like Summary
You May Also Like
Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
by Tom Vanderbilt 2016 320 pages
3.29
1.2K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
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