Best Sociology Books
1. 
Demography is Politics: How We Control Demographic Change
by:
Joanne Rodrigues
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 2. 
Body Talk: The Material and Discursive Regulation of Sexuality, Madness and Reproduction
by:
Jane M. Ussher
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings 
3. 
Get Bail, Leave Jail: America’s Guide to Hiring a Bondsman, Navigating Bail Bonds, and Getting out of Custody before Trial
by:
S.J. Plotkin
4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings 5. 
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
by:
R.D. Laing
4.11 avg rating — 6,311 ratings 
10. 
The Madness of Our Lives: Experiences of Mental Breakdown and Recovery
by:
Penny Gray
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 
12. 
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
by:
David Garland
4.01 avg rating — 236 ratings 13. 
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
by:
Thomas Szasz
3.77 avg rating — 1,719 ratings 14. 
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
by:
Johan Huizinga
3.99 avg rating — 2,857 ratings 16. 
Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications
by:
Louis Dumont
3.70 avg rating — 111 ratings 16. 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,047 ratings
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Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream 3.65 avg rating — 57 ratings
16. 
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
by:
Helen Thorpe
4.26 avg rating — 3,128 ratings 
16. 
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by:
Charles Mackay
3.82 avg rating — 4,976 ratings 16. 
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
by:
Ishay Landa
4.54 avg rating — 121 ratings 29. 
Journeys Through Mental Illness: Client Experiences and Understandings of Mental Distress really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
29. 
Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society
by:
Peter Trudgill
3.83 avg rating — 721 ratings 29. 
A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
by:
Frye Gaillard
4.43 avg rating — 115 ratings 
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The Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Ideology
by:
M.D. Kammari
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 37. 
Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia
by:
Kurt Snyder
3.87 avg rating — 316 ratings 37. 
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by:
Robert D. Putnam
3.85 avg rating — 8,659 ratings 
37. 
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by:
Eric Klinenberg
3.97 avg rating — 5,124 ratings 
42. 
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
by:
Lori Schiller
4.09 avg rating — 9,619 ratings 
42. 
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 4.11 avg rating — 15,876 ratings
42. 
Spotted Goddesses: Dalit Women's Agency-Narratives On Caste And Gender Violence
by:
Roja Singh
4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings 
47. 
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul
by:
Clara Bingham
4.33 avg rating — 412 ratings 50. 
Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice And Discrimination Against People With Mental Illness
by:
A.H. Crisp
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
52. 
Manufacturing Religion: The Discourse on Sui Generis Religion and the Politics of Nostalgia 3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings
54. 
The Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain
by:
Jonathan Burns
3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings 
56. 
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by:
Michel Foucault
4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings 57. 
64. 
The Abolition of Liberty: The Decline of Order and Justice in England
by:
Peter Hitchens
4.08 avg rating — 283 ratings 
66. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating — 102,338 ratings
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The Life Course: A Sociological Introduction
by:
Stephen J. Hunt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 73. 
The Alpha Enterprise: Evangelism in a Post-Christian Era
by:
Stephen Hunt
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
75. 
Religion in Western Society (Sociology for a Changing World, 5)
by:
Stephen J. Hunt
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 76. 
78. 
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
by:
Elaine Showalter
4.16 avg rating — 904 ratings 79. 
Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients, And Providers
by:
E. Fuller Torrey
4.24 avg rating — 979 ratings 
87. 
Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought
by:
Kenneth Morrison
3.64 avg rating — 67 ratings