Social Science
Our world pulses with invisible patterns of human behavior, group dynamics, and societal forces that shape everything from friendships to financial markets. Through rigorous research and compelling analysis, these books illuminate how people think, connect, and organize themselves—revealing the hidden architecture of our social world.
Social Science Book Summaries
How We Know What Isn't So
The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
The Tyranny of Metrics
Business
Economics
Science
Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
Politics
Activism
Social Justice
The Control Revolution
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
History
Technology
Economics
The Myth of the State
Philosophy
Politics
History
Tits Up
What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
Feminism
History
Science
Unforgiving Places
The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
Crime
Politics
History
Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992
History
Politics
Sociology
Authoritarian Nightmare
Trump and His Followers
Politics
Psychology
History
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature
Psychology
Science
Evolution
The Unthinkable
Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
Psychology
Science
Survival
Off the Edge
Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
History
Politics
Psychology
Copaganda
How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News
Politics
Social Justice
History
The Anatomy of Dependence
The key analysis of Japanese behavior
Japan
Psychology
Japanese Literature
The Big Myth
How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Economics
Politics
History
The Frontiers of Knowledge
What We Know about Science, History and the Mind
Science
Philosophy
History
Cults
Faith, Healing and Coercion
Cults
Psychology
Religion
Rebellion
How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart – Again
Politics
History
American History
A Lot of People Are Saying
The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
States and Social Revolutions
A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
History
Politics
Sociology
Captains Of Consciousness
Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
History
Sociology
Politics
The Guru Papers
Masks of Authoritarian Power
Psychology
Cults
Religion
The Big Sort
Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
Politics
Sociology
History
The Macho Paradox
Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
Feminism
Gender
Sociology
Trust
The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity
Economics
Politics
Sociology
Open Democracy
Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
Politics
Philosophy
Political Science
Winner-Take-All Politics
How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Politics
Economics
History
Making Democracy Work
Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
Politics
Political Science
History
Conspiracy
Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
Psychology
Science
Politics
White Identity Politics
Politics
Race
Political Science
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Economics
Politics
Sociology
The Division of Labor in Society
Sociology
Philosophy
Economics
The Great Risk Shift
The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement--And How You Can Fight Back
Economics
Politics
History
Virtuous Violence
Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
2020
One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
History
Sociology
Politics
Knowledge
A Very Short Introduction
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Habits of the Heart
Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Sociology
Politics
Philosophy
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Economics
Sociology
Politics
The Functions of Social Conflict
Sociology
Social Science
Lost in a Good Game
Why we play video games and what they can do for us
Video Games
Psychology
Gaming
Behavioral Economics When Psychology and Economics Collide
Economics
Psychology
Science
Freedom’s Dominion
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
History
Politics
Race
The Capital Order
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Economics
Politics
History
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Religion
Politics
Sociology
The Fear Factor
How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between
Psychology
Science
Neuroscience
Slaying Goliath
The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
Education
Politics
History
The Price of Democracy
The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
Economics
History
Politics
Laboratories of Autocracy
A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines
Politics
History
Political Science
The One Best Way
Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
Biography
History
Business
Unequal Democracy
The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Politics
Economics
Political Science
