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
How We Know What Isn't So
The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Why Brains Need Friends
The Neuroscience of Social Connection
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Economics
History
Sociology
How to Talk to a Science Denier
Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
Science
Psychology
Politics
The Certainty Illusion
What You Don't Know and Why It Matters
Science
Psychology
Politics
Brain Bugs
How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
Science
Psychology
Neuroscience
Scripts People Live
Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
Psychology
Self Help
Counselling
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
India
Book Club
History
Night Falls Fast
Understanding Suicide
Psychology
Mental Health
Mental Illness
The Control Revolution
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
History
Technology
Economics
The Original Black Elite
Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
History
Race
Biography
The Souls of Black Folk
History
Classics
Race
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Psychology
Business
Politics
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Politics
History
Philosophy
Making Sense of People
Decoding the Mysteries of Personality
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Nations and Nationalism since 1780
Programme, Myth, Reality
History
Politics
Philosophy
Tits Up
What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
Feminism
History
Science
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
Fed Up
Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
Feminism
Self Help
Womens
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Social Conquest of Earth
Science
History
Biology
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
History
Race
Politics
The Age of Diagnosis
How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
Science
Psychology
Health
The Birth of the Clinic
An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Philosophy
History
Medicine
Crazy Like Us
The Globalization of the American Psyche
Psychology
Mental Health
History
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
History
Race
African American
Unforgiving Places
The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
Crime
Politics
History
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Psychology
Business
Politics
Off the Edge
Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
History
Politics
Psychology
Goliath's Curse
The History and Future of Societal Collapse
History
Politics
Sociology
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Urban Planning
Architecture
Urbanism
Whole Numbers and Half Truths
India
Economics
Politics
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
Essays
Politics
Feminism
All That Is Solid
The Great Housing Disaster
Politics
Cities
Sociology
Reveille for Radicals
Politics
Philosophy
History
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
History
Economics
Politics
Bandits
History
Sociology
Crime
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Politics
History
Essays
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
I Never Thought of It That Way
How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Politics
Self Help
Psychology
The Social Contract
Philosophy
Politics
Classics
Limits to Medicine
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Philosophy
Medicine
Health
Empathy
Why It Matters, and How to Get It
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
A Protest History of the United States
History
Politics
American History
An Economist Walks into a Brothel
And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
Economics
Business
Finance
The Social Paradox
Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness – An Evolutionary Psychology Guide to Overcoming Loneliness
Psychology
Science
Self Help
The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
History
Race
Politics
Cults
Faith, Healing and Coercion
Cults
Psychology
Religion
What Is Property?
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
The Unthinkable
Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
Psychology
Science
Survival
