Sociology Book Summaries

Design Justice Summary
Design Justice
Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
by Sasha Costanza-Chock 2020 360 pages
4.18
500+ ratings
Design
Technology
Social Justice
Moral Politics Summary
Moral Politics
How Liberals and Conservatives Think
by George Lakoff 1996 471 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
Team Human Summary
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff 2019 256 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
Technology
Politics
Philosophy
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Summary
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci 1947 483 pages
4.20
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Future Shock Summary
Future Shock
by Alvin Toffler 1970 430 pages
3.82
5k+ ratings
Sociology
Science
Philosophy
The Construction of Social Reality Summary
The Construction of Social Reality
by John Rogers Searle 1995 256 pages
3.90
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
The Cinderella Complex Summary
The Cinderella Complex
Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
by Colette Dowling 1981 291 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
Feminism
Psychology
Womens
The Irrational Bundle Summary
The Irrational Bundle
Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
by Dan Ariely 2013 797 pages
4.32
100+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Science
The Spirit Level Summary
The Spirit Level
Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
by Richard G. Wilkinson 2009 352 pages
4.13
7k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
When Cultures Collide Summary
When Cultures Collide
Leading Across Cultures
by Richard D. Lewis 2005 599 pages
3.97
500+ ratings
Business
Cultural
Leadership
No Logo Summary
No Logo
by Naomi Klein 2000 528 pages
3.89
32k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
Enlightenment Now Summary
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker 2018 576 pages
4.20
31k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
Foolproof Summary
Foolproof
Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
by Sander van der Linden 2023 368 pages
3.99
500+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Science
Race After Technology Summary
Race After Technology
Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin 2019 258 pages
4.26
2k+ ratings
Race
Technology
Politics
Passages Summary
Passages
Predictable Crises of Adult Life
by Gail Sheehy 1976 576 pages
3.88
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
The Teachers Summary
The Teachers
A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
by Alexandra Robbins 2023 372 pages
4.17
3k+ ratings
Education
Teaching
Sociology
Drug Use for Grown-Ups Summary
Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
by Carl L. Hart 2021 304 pages
4.02
4k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Politics
The Locust Effect Summary
The Locust Effect
Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence
by Gary A. Haugen 2013 368 pages
4.32
1k+ ratings
Politics
Social Justice
Sociology
The Identity Trap Summary
The Identity Trap
A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
by Yascha Mounk 2023 414 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
Wanting Summary
Wanting
The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
by Luke Burgis 2021 304 pages
3.80
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Against Empathy Summary
Against Empathy
The Case for Rational Compassion
by Paul Bloom 2016 285 pages
3.58
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
The Good-Enough Life Summary
The Good-Enough Life
by Avram Alpert 2022 336 pages
3.38
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
Tricks of the Trade Summary
Tricks of the Trade
How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
by Howard S. Becker 1998 239 pages
4.06
100+ ratings
Sociology
Research
Writing
Profit and Punishment Summary
Profit and Punishment
How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
by Tony Messenger 2021 272 pages
4.26
500+ ratings
Politics
Social Justice
History
Civilized to Death Summary
Civilized to Death
What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
by Christopher Ryan 2018 400 pages
4.14
4k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Sociology
Why Civil Resistance Works Summary
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
by Erica Chenoweth 2011 320 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Activism
Bachelor Girl Summary
Bachelor Girl
The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
by Betsy Israel 2002 304 pages
3.71
1k+ ratings
History
Feminism
Womens
LikeWar Summary
LikeWar
The Weaponization of Social Media
by P.W. Singer 2018 416 pages
4.27
3k+ ratings
Politics
Technology
Sociology
Dataclysm Summary
Dataclysm
Who We Are
by Christian Rudder 2014 304 pages
3.73
12k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
Outcasts United Summary
Outcasts United
A Refugee Team, an American Town
by Warren St. John 2009 320 pages
3.84
8k+ ratings
Sports
Soccer
Book Club
The Empathic Civilization Summary
The Empathic Civilization
The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
by Jeremy Rifkin 2009 688 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
History
Psychology
Philosophy
Happy as a Dane Summary
Happy as a Dane
10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
by Malene Rydahl 2014 142 pages
3.46
500+ ratings
Self Help
Psychology
Adult
The Privileged Poor Summary
The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
by Anthony Abraham Jack 2019 288 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Education
Sociology
Social Justice
The True Believer Summary
The True Believer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer 1951 177 pages
4.20
11k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Rationality Summary
Rationality
by Steven Pinker 2021 432 pages
3.84
6k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
The Better Angels of Our Nature Summary
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker 2010 806 pages
4.16
29k+ ratings
History
Psychology
Science
Ψ³ΩŠΩƒΩˆΩ„ΩˆΨ¬ΩŠΨ© Ψ§Ω„Ψ¬Ω…Ψ§Ω‡ΩŠΨ± Summary
Ψ³ΩŠΩƒΩˆΩ„ΩˆΨ¬ΩŠΨ© Ψ§Ω„Ψ¬Ω…Ψ§Ω‡ΩŠΨ±
by Gustave Le Bon 1895 200 pages
3.82
19k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Politics
The Age of the Strongman Summary
The Age of the Strongman
How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
by Gideon Rachman 2022 288 pages
4.05
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Sociology
Hit Makers Summary
Hit Makers
The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
by Derek Thompson 2017 307 pages
3.90
6k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Science
The Sociopath Next Door Summary
The Sociopath Next Door
by Martha Stout 2005 256 pages
3.77
37k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Hard-Core Romance Summary
Hard-Core Romance
"Fifty Shades of Grey," Best-Sellers, and Society
by Eva Illouz 2013 97 pages
3.53
100+ ratings
Sociology
Feminism
Sexuality
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2 Summary
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2
The Use of Pleasure
by Michel Foucault 1984 304 pages
4.06
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Sexuality
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Summary
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
by Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek 2018 70 pages
3.57
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Culture of Narcissism Summary
The Culture of Narcissism
American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
by Christopher Lasch 1978 368 pages
3.97
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
The Post-American World Summary
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria 2008 292 pages
3.86
12k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The World Is Flat Summary
The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman 2005 593 pages
3.69
100k+ ratings
History
Business
Economics
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters Summary
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire β€” Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do
by Alan S. Miller 2006 252 pages
3.56
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Choice Factory Summary
The Choice Factory
25 behavioural biases that influence what we buy
by Richard Shotton 2018 202 pages
4.12
1k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Economics
Poor Economics Summary
Poor Economics
A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
by Abhijit V. Banerjee 2011 320 pages
4.28
23k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
The Philosophy of Money Summary
The Philosophy of Money
by Georg Simmel 1900 616 pages
4.07
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Economics
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