Sociology
Our social world shapes everything from how we think and behave to how we build our communities and technologies. These thought-provoking works examine human nature, cultural shifts, and the hidden patterns that drive our increasingly complex society.
Sociology Book Summaries
The Promised Land
The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
History
Race
American History
The Economics of Inequality
Economics
Politics
Business
Necropolitics
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Great Demographic Illusion
Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
Politics
Race
Sociology
Red State Revolt
The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics
Politics
Labor
History
Talking to the Enemy
Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists
Politics
Religion
Anthropology
The Making of the English Working Class
History
Politics
Economics
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Psychology
Business
Politics
Nation Building
Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart
Politics
Political Science
History
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
Karl Polanyi's Critique
Economics
Politics
Theory
Dog Whistle Politics
How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Politics
Race
History
Peasants Into Frenchmen
The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
History
France
European History
What Makes a Hero?
The Surprising Science of Selflessness
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
The Development of the Modern State
A Sociological Introduction
Sociology
History
Politics
Ethnic Boundary Making
Institutions, Power, Networks
Sociology
Politics
Race
Categorically Unequal
The American Stratification System
Sociology
Politics
Economics
The True and Only Heaven
Progress and Its Critics
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Watchman's Rattle
Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
Science
Psychology
Sociology
The Progress Paradox
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
Psychology
Economics
Sociology
Rough Sleepers
Biography
Medicine
Social Justice
Us Against Them
Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion
Politics
Sociology
Class
The McDonaldization of Society
Sociology
Economics
Politics
Race and Racism
A Comparative Perspective
Sociology
Anthropology
Race
The Culture of the New Capitalism
Sociology
Economics
Business
The Impulse Society
America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
The End of Power
From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn't What It Used to Be
Business
Politics
History
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber
Sociology
Politics
Philosophy
Religion in Human Evolution
From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
Religion
History
Anthropology
C. Wright Mills and the Power Elite
Political Science
Sociology
Politics
Nationalism
Politics
Sociology
Asymmetric Politics
Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats
Politics
Political Science
Ebooks
Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century, Vol 2
The Wheels of Commerce
History
Economics
Sociology
The Age of Choice
A History of Freedom in Modern Life
History
Philosophy
Politics
The Outsourced Self
Intimate Life in Market Times
Sociology
Economics
Psychology
The Left Behind
Decline and Rage in Rural America
Politics
Sociology
Cultural
The Great Dechurching
Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
Christian
Religion
Church
Audience of One
Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America
Politics
History
Pop Culture
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
An Analysis of Systems Change
History
Politics
Political Science
Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Race
Technology
Social Justice
An American Summer
True Crime
Sociology
Crime
American Poison
How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
Race
Politics
History
Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Readings on the Themes of Habits of the Heart
Sociology
Politics
Max Weber
An Intellectual Portrait
Sociology
History
Philosophy
To Catch a Fascist
The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
Politics
History
Journalism
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Politics
History
Philosophy
Man Up
The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism
Feminism
Politics
Sociology
Socializing Capital
History
Sociology
Economics
The Girls Who Went Away
The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
History
Feminism
Adoption
Whitewashing Race
The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
Race
Sociology
Politics
American Prison
A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
History
Politics
Sociology
