Sociology Book Summaries

Shop Class as Soulcraft Summary
Shop Class as Soulcraft
An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
by Matthew B. Crawford 2009 241 pages
3.75
10k+ ratings
Philosophy
Education
Self Help
Who Stole the American Dream? Summary
Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith 2012 592 pages
4.19
500+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Citizens Summary
Citizens
Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
by Jon Alexander 2022 320 pages
4.08
100+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Society
Social Summary
Social
Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
by Matthew D. Lieberman 2013 384 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
The Broken Ladder Summary
The Broken Ladder
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
by Keith Payne 2018 256 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Economics
Excellent Sheep Summary
Excellent Sheep
The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
by William Deresiewicz 2014 245 pages
3.88
6k+ ratings
Education
Sociology
Politics
Nexus Summary
Nexus
Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
by Mark Buchanan 2002 236 pages
3.80
500+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Physics
Acting with Power Summary
Acting with Power
Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe
by Deborah Gruenfeld 2020 272 pages
3.85
100+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Self Help
The End of Burnout Summary
The End of Burnout
Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
by Jonathan Malesic 2022 288 pages
3.77
500+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Sociology
Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety Summary
Obsesja piękna. Jak kultura popularna krzywdzi dziewczynki i kobiety
by Renee Engeln 2017 416 pages
4.14
6k+ ratings
Feminism
Psychology
Self Help
On Rumors Summary
On Rumors
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done
by Cass R. Sunstein 2009 112 pages
3.27
100+ ratings
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
Sway Summary
Sway
The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by Ori Brafman 2008 206 pages
3.78
19k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
Why Men Fight Summary
Why Men Fight
by Bertrand Russell 1916 280 pages
3.95
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Madness of Crowds Summary
The Madness of Crowds
Gender, Race and Identity
by Douglas Murray 2019 293 pages
4.20
16k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
Brandwashed Summary
Brandwashed
Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
by Martin Lindstrom 2011 304 pages
3.81
4k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Sociology
The Geopolitics of Emotion Summary
The Geopolitics of Emotion
How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World
by Dominique Moïsi 2008 192 pages
3.64
100+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
International Relations
How Propaganda Works Summary
How Propaganda Works
by Jason F. Stanley 2015 376 pages
3.56
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Plato, Not Prozac! Summary
Plato, Not Prozac!
Applying Eternal Wisdom to Everyday Problems
by Lou Marinoff 1999 308 pages
3.47
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
X Saves the World Summary
X Saves the World
How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
by Jeff Gordinier 2008 224 pages
3.46
500+ ratings
History
Sociology
Pop Culture
The Sane Society Summary
The Sane Society
by Erich Fromm 1955 386 pages
4.25
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
The Perennials Summary
The Perennials
The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society
by Mauro F. Guillén 2023 263 pages
3.59
100+ ratings
Sociology
Business
Society
Big Gods Summary
Big Gods
How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
by Ara Norenzayan 2013 257 pages
4.02
100+ ratings
Religion
History
Psychology
Saving the Modern Soul Summary
Saving the Modern Soul
Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
by Eva Illouz 2008 304 pages
4.12
100+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Self Help
The Boy Crisis Summary
The Boy Crisis
Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
by Warren Farrell 2019 368 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Sociology
The Wealth of Networks Summary
The Wealth of Networks
How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler 2006 528 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
Economics
Technology
Business
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone Summary
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
by Astra Taylor 2019 368 pages
4.20
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Trouble with Diversity Summary
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
by Walter Benn Michaels 2006 256 pages
3.60
500+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Race
Liberalism and Its Discontents Summary
Liberalism and Its Discontents
by Francis Fukuyama 2022 178 pages
3.93
3k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Political Ideologies Summary
Political Ideologies
An Introduction
by Andrew Heywood 1992 382 pages
4.10
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
The Grift Summary
The Grift
The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
by Clay Cane 2024 400 pages
4.27
500+ ratings
Politics
History
Race
Inside the Criminal Mind Summary
Inside the Criminal Mind
by Stanton E. Samenow 1984 288 pages
3.79
2k+ ratings
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East Summary
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East
by Bernard Lewis 2001 186 pages
3.54
3k+ ratings
History
Islam
Religion
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Summary
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
by Anne Case 2020 288 pages
3.81
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
Because Internet Summary
Because Internet
Understanding the New Rules of Language
by Gretchen McCulloch 2019 327 pages
4.05
12k+ ratings
Linguistics
Language
Science
The Price of Civilization Summary
The Price of Civilization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2010 336 pages
3.84
2k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Weapons of Mass Instruction Summary
Weapons of Mass Instruction
A Schoolteacher's Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
by John Taylor Gatto 2008 192 pages
4.23
3k+ ratings
Education
Parenting
Politics
Men Who Hate Women Summary
Men Who Hate Women
by Laura Bates 2020 366 pages
4.34
22k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Sociology
We Real Cool Summary
We Real Cool
Black Men and Masculinity
by bell hooks 2003 184 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Feminism
Race
Gender
The Glass Cage Summary
The Glass Cage
How Our Computers Are Changing Us
by Nicholas Carr 2014 288 pages
3.75
2k+ ratings
Technology
Science
Psychology
The Order of Things Summary
The Order of Things
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by Michel Foucault 1966 416 pages
4.12
9k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Theory
The Constitution of Knowledge Summary
The Constitution of Knowledge
A Defense of Truth
by Jonathan Rauch 2021 318 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses Summary
Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses
Part Two from What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 120 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Rebel Cities Summary
Rebel Cities
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by David Harvey 2012 206 pages
3.92
2k+ ratings
Politics
Urbanism
Urban Studies
No Shame in My Game Summary
No Shame in My Game
The Working Poor in the Inner City
by Katherine S. Newman 1999 416 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
Sociology
Poverty
Economics
The Sociological Imagination Summary
The Sociological Imagination
by C. Wright Mills 1959 248 pages
4.16
3k+ ratings
Sociology
Philosophy
Social Science
The Sharing Economy Summary
The Sharing Economy
The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-based Capitalism
by Arun Sundararajan 2016 240 pages
3.66
100+ ratings
Business
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Worshipping False Gods Summary
Worshipping False Gods
Ambedkar and the Facts Which Have Been Erased
by Arun Shourie 1997 680 pages
3.81
100+ ratings
History
India
Politics
Happiness Summary
Happiness
Lessons from a New Science
by Richard Layard 2005 320 pages
3.71
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Science
The Power of Bad Summary
The Power of Bad
How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
by John Tierney 2019 325 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Social Physics Summary
Social Physics
How Good Ideas Spread— The Lessons from a New Science
by Alex Pentland 2014 320 pages
3.53
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Sociology
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