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
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
The Pursuit of Loneliness
American Culture at the Breaking Point
Sociology
Psychology
Philosophy
Sharing the Journey
Support Groups and the Quest for a New Community
Sociology
Psychology
Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's
Sociology
Politics
Political Science
Small Worlds
The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness
Mathematics
Science
Sociology
La défaite de l'Occident
Politics
History
France
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Sociology
Politics
Political Science
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Psychology
Business
Politics
Society and Economy
Framework and Principles
Economics
Sociology
Politics
Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
Politics
Psychology
Political Science
The Suggestible Brain
The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis and Religion
Psychology
Philosophy
Religion
Organizing America
Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
History
Sociology
Business
Genesis
The Deep Origin of Societies
Science
Biology
History
Kings or People
Power and the Mandate to Rule
History
Sociology
Political Science
The First New Nation
Sociology
History
The Global Police State
Politics
Sociology
Political Science
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
Change They Can't Believe In
The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America
Politics
American History
Political Science
Don't Talk About Politics
How to Change 21st-Century Minds
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
Not Born Yesterday
The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Corporation Nation
How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It
Politics
Business
Economics
Punishing the Poor
The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Sociology
Politics
Economics
The Mind and the Market
Capitalism in Western Thought
Economics
History
Philosophy
Party of One
The Loner's Manifesto
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
Vulture Capitalism
Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
Politics
Economics
History
The Familial State
Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Sociology
History
European History
Entry Lessons
The Stories of Women Fighting for Their Place, Their Children, and Their FuturesAfter Incarceration
Sociology
Adult
The Architecture of Markets
An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies
Economics
Sociology
The Savage Mind
Anthropology
Philosophy
Psychology
El pequeño libro del lenguaje
Language
Linguistics
History
Wild Nights
How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World
History
Psychology
Science
Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation
Politics
Sociology
WASPS
The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy
History
American History
Sociology
Irreversible Damage
The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Psychology
Politics
Parenting
The Urge
Our History of Addiction
History
Psychology
Science
Progress and Poverty
An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Loneliness
Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Antisocial Media
How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Technology
Politics
Social Media
Class War?
What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Swole
The Making of Men and the Meaning of Muscle
Memoir
History
Sociology
The Social Strategist
How to Master Your Social Life, Raise Your Status, and Win More Negotiations
Business
Self Help
Psychology
Project Fatherhood
A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities
Parenting
Sociology
Taking it Big
C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals
Sociology
Biography
The Modern Mind
An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
History
Philosophy
Science
The Age of Defeat
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Capitalizing on Crisis
The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
Economics
History
Politics
Queen Bees and Wannabes
Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence
Parenting
Psychology
Self Help
The Global Sexual Revolution
Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom
Politics
Sexuality
Philosophy
