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
Why Trust Matters
An Economist's Guide to the Ties That Bind Us
Economics
Business
History
Free Speech
A History from Socrates to Social Media
History
Politics
Philosophy
Why Brains Need Friends
The Neuroscience of Social Connection
Psychology
Science
Self Help
The Certainty Illusion
What You Don't Know and Why It Matters
Science
Psychology
Politics
How We Know What Isn't So
The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Me and White Supremacy
Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Race
Anti Racist
Social Justice
The Strange Order of Things
Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
The Tyranny of Metrics
Business
Economics
Science
How to Talk to a Science Denier
Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
Science
Psychology
Politics
The Control Revolution
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
History
Technology
Economics
Goliath's Curse
The History and Future of Societal Collapse
History
Politics
Sociology
Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
Politics
Activism
Social Justice
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
History
Race
Politics
Whole Numbers and Half Truths
India
Economics
Politics
Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Economics
History
Sociology
Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992
History
Politics
Sociology
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
Bandits
History
Sociology
Crime
I Never Thought of It That Way
How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Politics
Self Help
Psychology
Night Falls Fast
Understanding Suicide
Psychology
Mental Health
Mental Illness
Unforgiving Places
The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
Crime
Politics
History
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
History
Race
African American
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
History
Race
Politics
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
The Souls of Black Folk
History
Classics
Race
The Age of Diagnosis
How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
Science
Psychology
Health
Fed Up
Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
Feminism
Self Help
Womens
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
History
Race
Biography
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
History
Economics
Politics
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Politics
History
Philosophy
Empathy
Why It Matters, and How to Get It
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Politics
History
Essays
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
What Is Property?
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The Anatomy of Dependence
The key analysis of Japanese behavior
Japan
Psychology
Japanese Literature
Limits to Medicine
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Philosophy
Medicine
Health
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Politics
History
Economics
The Project
How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
Politics
History
Sociology
The Quantified Self
Technology
Sociology
Academic
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Essays
Politics
Feminism
Tavistock Institute
Social Engineering the Masses
Conspiracy Theories
History
Psychology
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Politics
Philosophy
History
Reveille for Radicals
Politics
Philosophy
History
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Psychology
Business
Politics
Evil
The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
A Field Guide to Earthlings
An Autistic/Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Self Help
An Economist Walks into a Brothel
And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
Economics
Business
Finance
All That Is Solid
The Great Housing Disaster
Politics
Cities
Sociology
