Sociology Books
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating โ 885,848 ratings 3. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating โ 844,288 ratings 
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
3.96 avg rating โ 614,720 ratings 6. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating โ 445,058 ratings 7. 
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by:
Steven D. Levitt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ 133,655 ratings 
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating โ 129,366 ratings 10. 
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by:
Michel Foucault
4.24 avg rating โ 35,775 ratings 11. 
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.26 avg rating โ 18,905 ratings 
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating โ 78,419 ratings 18. 
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
by:
Mary Pipher
3.89 avg rating โ 26,411 ratings 
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by:
Eric Schlosser
3.75 avg rating โ 206,251 ratings 
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
by:
Eric Weiner
3.84 avg rating โ 38,202 ratings 28. 
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by:
Sudhir Venkatesh
4.07 avg rating โ 25,133 ratings 
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating โ 109,956 ratings 
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
by:
Peter L. Berger
4.12 avg rating โ 4,250 ratings 
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness 3.84 avg rating โ 92,734 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by:
Robert D. Putnam
3.85 avg rating โ 8,660 ratings 43. 
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by:
Pierre Bourdieu
4.16 avg rating โ 3,482 ratings 44. 
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
by:
Max Weber
4.12 avg rating โ 1,566 ratings 45. 
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
by:
Gyรถrgy Lukรกcs
4.06 avg rating โ 3,628 ratings 46. 
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 4.41 avg rating โ 5,475 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating โ 8,007 ratings 
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitledโand More Miserable Than Ever Before
by:
Jean M. Twenge
3.58 avg rating โ 2,781 ratings 52. 
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating โ 113,292 ratings 
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
by:
Erving Goffman
4.15 avg rating โ 1,556 ratings 
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
by:
Herbert Marcuse
3.98 avg rating โ 7,345 ratings 
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
by:
Michel Foucault
4.11 avg rating โ 7,327 ratings 63. 
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
by:
Rebecca D. Costa
3.97 avg rating โ 574 ratings 64. 
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling 4.14 avg rating โ 11,730 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating โ 51,940 ratings 
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by:
Ori Brafman
3.78 avg rating โ 19,712 ratings 68. 
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber
by:
Anthony Giddens
3.91 avg rating โ 721 ratings 
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
by:
Karl Marx
4.13 avg rating โ 5,206 ratings 
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Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance
by:
Howard S. Becker
3.97 avg rating โ 1,320 ratings 
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by:
Stephanie Coontz
3.98 avg rating โ 2,568 ratings 
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
by:
Jรผrgen Habermas
3.87 avg rating โ 2,148 ratings 77. 
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating โ 488,844 ratings 
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
by:
Kate Fox
3.91 avg rating โ 11,103 ratings 
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
by:
Michel Foucault
4.12 avg rating โ 9,486 ratings 83. 
Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
by:
Michael Burawoy
4.08 avg rating โ 114 ratings 84. 
The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
by:
Aldon D. Morris
4.38 avg rating โ 213 ratings 
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.13 avg rating โ 7,492 ratings 88. 
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
by:
Erving Goffman
3.94 avg rating โ 3,171 ratings 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating โ 73,874 ratings 
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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Legacies of Social Thought Series)
by:
Elliot Liebow
3.93 avg rating โ 374 ratings 
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The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
by:
Daniel Golden
3.67 avg rating โ 977 ratings 97. 
The Truth-Seekerโs Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
by:
Gleb Tsipursky
4.18 avg rating โ 77 ratings 98. 
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men 3.94 avg rating โ 1,633 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating โ 41,145 ratings 100. 
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
by:
Alice Miller
4.05 avg rating โ 29,447 ratings