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
Taking America Back for God
Christian Nationalism in the United States
Politics
Religion
Christianity
The Authoritarian Personality
Psychology
Philosophy
Politics
The Decline of the West
History
Philosophy
Politics
Democracy
Politics
Political Science
Sociology
Let Them Eat Tweets
How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Politics
History
Economics
How to Change the World
Tales of Marx and Marxism
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
Twelve Lectures
Philosophy
Sociology
Theory
Racism
A Short History
History
Race
Sociology
A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
History
Politics
Sociology
A Different Mirror
A History of Multicultural America
History
Race
Social Justice
Durable Inequality
Sociology
Politics
Economics
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany by Rogers Brubaker
History
Politics
France
Together
The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Sociology
Philosophy
Politics
The Forgotten Language
An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
Psychology
Philosophy
Mythology
On Settler Colonialism
Ideology, Violence, and Justice
Politics
History
Israel
Rural Versus Urban
The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy
Politics
History
Sociology
Democracy for Realists
Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Politics
Political Science
History
The Undertow
Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Politics
History
Religion
Captains Of Consciousness
Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
History
Sociology
Politics
The Functions of Social Conflict
Sociology
Social Science
The Age of Abundance
How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
Economics
History
Politics
Racial Innocence
Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Race
Social Justice
Latinx
Diversity and Complexity
Science
Economics
Business
The Rise and Decline of Nations
Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
Economics
Politics
History
Virtuous Violence
Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
War! What Is It Good For?
Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
History
War
Military Fiction
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Economics
Sociology
Politics
2020
One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
History
Sociology
Politics
Petit traité de manipulation à l'usage des honnêtes gens
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Politics
History
Political Science
Panarchy
Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
Science
Ecology
Environment
The Death of Truth
Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Sociology
Politics
History
The Audit Society
Rituals of Verification
Sociology
Anthropology
The War on the West
Politics
History
Philosophy
La sociolinguistique
Linguistics
France
Sociology
The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
History
Politics
Economics
The Acquisitive Society
Economics
Sociology
Politics
The Quest for Community
A Study in the Ethics of Order & Freedom
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Nationalism
Five Roads to Modernity
History
Politics
Sociology
Unequal Democracy
The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Politics
Economics
Political Science
The Price of Democracy
The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
History
Politics
Economics
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Religion
Politics
Sociology
Deep Secrets
Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection
Parenting
Psychology
Gender
Made in America
A Social History of American Culture and Character
History
Sociology
Cultural
The Right
The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
Politics
History
American History
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
History
Politics
Sociology
The Good Society
Sociology
Philosophy
Society
Slaying Goliath
The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
Education
Politics
History
The Populist Explosion
How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
Politics
History
Economics
