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
Religion in Human Evolution
From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
Religion
History
Anthropology
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber
Sociology
Politics
Philosophy
The Left Behind
Decline and Rage in Rural America
Politics
Sociology
Cultural
Race and Racism
A Comparative Perspective
Sociology
Anthropology
Race
The Age of Choice
A History of Freedom in Modern Life
History
Philosophy
Politics
The Progress Paradox
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
Psychology
Economics
Sociology
Nationalism
Politics
Sociology
Audience of One
Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America
Politics
History
Pop Culture
C. Wright Mills and the Power Elite
Political Science
Sociology
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
Necropolitics
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Rough Sleepers
Biography
Medicine
Social Justice
The McDonaldization of Society
Sociology
Economics
Politics
Socializing Capital
History
Sociology
Economics
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Psychology
Business
Politics
The Outsourced Self
Intimate Life in Market Times
Sociology
Economics
Psychology
The True and Only Heaven
Progress and Its Critics
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Impulse Society
America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Sociology
Psychology
Politics
The Culture of the New Capitalism
Sociology
Economics
Business
Max Weber
An Intellectual Portrait
Sociology
History
Philosophy
Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century, Vol 2
The Wheels of Commerce
History
Economics
Sociology
Asymmetric Politics
Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats
Politics
Political Science
Ebooks
The Sovereign State and Its Competitors
An Analysis of Systems Change
History
Politics
Political Science
Man Up
The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism
Feminism
Politics
Sociology
The Great Dechurching
Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
Christian
Religion
Church
Whitewashing Race
The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
Race
Sociology
Politics
The Making of the English Working Class
History
Politics
Economics
Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Readings on the Themes of Habits of the Heart
Sociology
Politics
American Poison
How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
Race
Politics
History
Sharing the Journey
Support Groups and the Quest for a New Community
Sociology
Psychology
Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Race
Technology
Social Justice
Peasants Into Frenchmen
The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
History
France
European History
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
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
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Sociology
Politics
Political Science
Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's
Sociology
Politics
Political Science
La défaite de l'Occident
Politics
History
France
Organizing America
Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
History
Sociology
Business
Change They Can't Believe In
The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America
Politics
American History
Political Science
The Suggestible Brain
The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our Minds
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Global Police State
Politics
Sociology
Political Science
Kings or People
Power and the Mandate to Rule
History
Sociology
Political Science
Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
Politics
Psychology
Political Science
Small Worlds
The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness
Mathematics
Science
Sociology
Psychoanalysis and Religion
Psychology
Philosophy
Religion
Don't Talk About Politics
How to Change 21st-Century Minds
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
An American Summer
True Crime
Sociology
Crime
The First New Nation
Sociology
History
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
