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
Self-Renewal
The Individual and the Innovative Society
Psychology
Leadership
Personal Development
The New Human Rights Movement
Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Consequences of Capitalism
Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
Politics
Economics
History
The Quick Fix
Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Ten Types of Human
Who We Are and Who We Can Be
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Six Degrees
The Science of a Connected Age
Science
Sociology
Mathematics
Triumphs of Experience
The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
Psychology
Science
Sociology
A Force More Powerful
A Century of Non-Violent Conflict
History
Politics
Sociology
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
Politics
Philosophy
History
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Faster
The Acceleration of Just About Everything
Science
Technology
Psychology
The Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
History
Biography
Science
So You Want to Talk About Race
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Heavens on Earth
The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
Science
Philosophy
Religion
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Spent
Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Psychology
Science
Economics
Cringeworthy
A Theory of Awkwardness
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Politics
History
Biography
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Politics
Sociology
Race
American Girls
Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
Parenting
Sociology
Feminism
Superclass
The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
Politics
Economics
Business
The World Until Yesterday
What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
History
Anthropology
Science
Stolen Pride
Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
Politics
Sociology
History
Cognitive Surplus
Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Technology
Business
Psychology
A Generation of Sociopaths
How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America
Politics
History
Sociology
Work Won't Love You Back
How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Politics
Business
Labor
Fist Stick Knife Gun
A Personal History of Violence
Memoir
Graphic Novels
Education
Theories, Predictions, and Diagnoses
Part Two from What the Dog Saw
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Call of the Mall
The Geography of Shopping
Business
Psychology
Sociology
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
How Ideas Spread
Business
Psychology
Science
The Golem
What You Should Know about Science
Science
Philosophy
History
Our Kids
The American Dream in Crisis
Sociology
Education
Politics
Can't Even
How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Psychology
Sociology
Self Help
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Politics
History
Economics
Breaking the Spell
Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Philosophy
Science
Atheism
Conquests and Cultures
An International History
History
Economics
Politics
Suspicious Minds
Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
Psychology
Science
History
New Passages
Mapping Your Life Across Time
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
Virtual Society
The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
Technology
Sociology
Science
Popular
The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
The Power of Strangers
The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
Psychology
Self Help
Sociology
Radical Technologies
The Design of Everyday Life
Technology
Design
Politics
Science Fictions
Science
Psychology
Philosophy
The Nones
Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going
Religion
Sociology
History
The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Education
Politics
Sociology
Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Psychology
Science
Sociology
Schadenfreude
The Joy of Another's Misfortune
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
The Price of Civilization
Politics
Economics
History
Dumbing Us Down
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Education
Parenting
Politics
