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
Parasitic Mind
How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
Politics
History
War
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
Philosophy
Sociology
History
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
The Social Construction of Reality
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Sociology
Philosophy
Psychology
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
History
Science
Anthropology
Self-Made Man
One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
Memoir
Gender
Feminism
The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The Lucifer Effect
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Philosophy
Psychology
Theory
The Coddling of the American Mind
How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
The Power of the Powerless
Politics
Philosophy
History
Images of Organization
Business
Management
Leadership
The Denial of Death
Philosophy
Psychology
Death
A History of Modern Iran
History
Iran
Politics
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Psychology
Technology
Business
Mutual Aid
A Factor of Evolution
Politics
Philosophy
Science
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Politics
History
Activism
The Status Game
On Human Life and How to Play It
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
End Times
Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
History
Politics
Economics
Evolutionary Psychology
The New Science of the Mind
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Buyology
Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
Business
Psychology
Economics
Homo Ludens
A Study of the Play Element in Culture
Philosophy
History
Game Design
Blink
The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Psychology
Business
Self Help
Status Anxiety
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Capital
A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Social Intelligence
The New Science of Human Relationships
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Laziness Does Not Exist
Self Help
Psychology
Mental Health
A Billion Wicked Thoughts
What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire
Psychology
Science
Sexuality
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
History
Politics
Race
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Philosophy
History
Sociology
Globalization and its Discontents
Economics
Politics
History
Systems Thinking For Social Change
A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
Business
Sociology
Leadership
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
History
Race
Social Justice
A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Politics
Philosophy
Economics
The Four Pivots
Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
Social Justice
Self Help
Politics
The Shallows
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Psychology
Science
Technology
The End of History and the Last Man
Politics
History
Philosophy
Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Technology
Philosophy
Sociology
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
An Introduction
Philosophy
History
Theory
David and Goliath
Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Psychology
Business
Self Help
The Chaos Machine
The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Technology
Psychology
Politics
Snakes in Suits
When Psychopaths Go to Work
Psychology
Business
Science
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Feminism
Science
Politics
When Prophecy Fails
A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World
Psychology
Religion
Sociology
Annihilation of Caste
India
History
Politics
Normal Accidents
Living with High-Risk Technologies
Science
Engineering
Technology
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
A Secular Age
Philosophy
Religion
History
