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
How Fascism Works
The Politics of Us and Them
Politics
History
Philosophy
Why Love Hurts
A Sociological Explanation
Sociology
Psychology
Feminism
The Will to Change
Men, Masculinity, and Love
Feminism
Philosophy
Psychology
The Human Condition
Philosophy
Politics
History
The Crisis of Narration
Philosophy
Essays
Sociology
Democracy
The God That Failed
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
A Secular Age
Philosophy
Religion
History
The Evolution of Cooperation
Economics
Science
Psychology
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Big Gods
How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict
Religion
History
Psychology
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Politics
History
Economics
The Corrosion of Character
The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Sociology
Economics
Philosophy
The Machiavellians
Defenders of Freedom
Politics
Philosophy
History
Woke, Inc.
Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
Politics
Business
Economics
Invisible Influence
The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Civilization and Its Discontents
Psychology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Generations
The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
Sociology
Psychology
History
The Narrow Corridor
States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
Politics
Economics
History
The Anatomy of Violence
The Biological Roots of Crime
Psychology
Science
Crime
The Crowd
A Study of the Popular Mind
Psychology
Sociology
Politics
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Philosophy
Politics
History
Liquid Life
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
Annihilation of Caste
India
History
Politics
Politics As a Vocation
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
The Naked Ape
A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal
Science
Anthropology
Psychology
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
The Construction of Social Reality
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Psychology
Sociology
Book Club
Post-Truth
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Albion's Seed
Four British Folkways in America
History
American History
American
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Sociology
Politics
Social Justice
What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Civilization
The West and the Rest
History
Politics
Economics
The Wisdom of Crowds
Psychology
Business
Economics
One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
History
Psychology
Science
Useful Delusions
The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Never Enough
When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
Parenting
Education
Self Help
Mindreader
The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Survival of the Richest
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Politics
Economics
Technology
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Criminology
Crime
Science
Academic
The Meritocracy Trap
How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
Politics
Economics
Sociology
The Sociological Imagination
Sociology
Philosophy
Politics
Fluke
Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Image
A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
History
Politics
Philosophy
Poverty, by America
Politics
History
Sociology
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Politics
Race
Social Justice
SuperFreakonomics
Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Economics
Business
Science
Intellectuals and Society
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
