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
The Functions of Social Conflict
Sociology
Social Science
Bring the War Home
The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
History
Politics
Race
La sociolinguistique
Linguistics
France
Sociology
Fragmented Democracy
Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
Politics
Race
Health Care
Racism
A Short History
History
Race
Sociology
The Sources of Social Power
Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
History
Sociology
Politics
Whiteness of a Different Color
European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
History
Race
Sociology
Healing Collective Trauma
A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds
Psychology
Social Justice
Self Help
Freedom’s Dominion
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
History
Politics
Race
The Guarded Gate
Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
History
Politics
American History
American Grace
How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Religion
Politics
Sociology
Democracy
Politics
Political Science
Sociology
The Capital Order
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Economics
Politics
History
Eve Was Framed
Women and British Justice
Law
Feminism
Politics
Talking to the Enemy
Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists
Politics
Religion
Anthropology
The Acquisitive Society
Economics
Sociology
Politics
The Great Experiment
Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
Politics
History
Philosophy
Slaying Goliath
The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools
Education
Politics
History
You Are Now Less Dumb
How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
Psychology
Self Help
Science
White Flight
Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
History
Politics
Race
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
History
Race
American History
Racial Innocence
Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Race
Social Justice
Latinx
Durable Inequality
Sociology
Politics
Economics
Unequal Democracy
The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Politics
Economics
Political Science
What Makes a Hero?
The Surprising Science of Selflessness
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
Religion in Human Evolution
From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
Religion
History
Anthropology
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
History
American History
Politics
Democracy for Realists
Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
Politics
Political Science
History
The Great Alignment
Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Politics
Political Science
History
The Politics of Resentment
Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
Politics
Political Science
Sociology
The Great Disruption
Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
Politics
Sociology
Political Science
Affluence and Influence
Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
Politics
Economics
Political Science
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
History
Race
Social Justice
On Settler Colonialism
Ideology, Violence, and Justice
Politics
History
Israel
The Age of Choice
A History of Freedom in Modern Life
History
Philosophy
Politics
Why Nudge?
The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism
Politics
Economics
Psychology
Categorically Unequal
The American Stratification System
Sociology
Politics
Economics
A Different Mirror
A History of Multicultural America
History
Race
American History
The Watchman's Rattle
Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
Science
Psychology
Sociology
Made in America
A Social History of American Culture and Character
History
Sociology
Cultural
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany by Rogers Brubaker
History
Politics
France
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You
Busting Myths about Human Nature
Anthropology
Science
Psychology
For the Glory of God
How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery
History
Religion
Christianity
Taking America Back for God
Christian Nationalism in the United States
Politics
Religion
Christianity
Panarchy
Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
Science
Ecology
Environment
The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
History
Politics
Economics
The Color of Welfare
How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
Sociology
Politics
History
The Flag and the Cross
White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
Politics
Religion
History
The Quest for Community
A Study in the Ethics of Order & Freedom
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
