Sociology Book Summaries

Social Psychology Summary
Social Psychology
by David G. Myers 1983 593 pages
4.01
1.4K ratings
Psychology
Textbooks
Sociology
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps Summary
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps
How We're Different and What to Do About It
by Allan Pease 1998 272 pages
3.76
11.5K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Relationships
Misbelief Summary
Misbelief
What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
by Dan Ariely 2023 320 pages
3.92
1.9K ratings
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison Summary
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice
by Jeffrey H. Reiman 1979 288 pages
3.93
568 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Social Justice
Work Summary
Work
A History of How we spend our Time
by James Suzman 2020 464 pages
3.84
2.9K ratings
History
Anthropology
Economics
The Nordic Theory of Everything Summary
The Nordic Theory of Everything
In Search of a Better Life
by Anu Partanen 2016 448 pages
3.86
8.6K ratings
Politics
Sociology
Memoir
The World Is Flat Summary
The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
by Thomas L. Friedman 2005 593 pages
3.69
102.3K ratings
History
Business
Economics
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution Summary
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon 2015 286 pages
4.18
242 ratings
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
The Origins of Political Order Summary
The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama 2011 585 pages
4.18
10.1K ratings
History
Politics
Political Science
Network Propaganda Summary
Network Propaganda
Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
by Yochai Benkler 2018 472 pages
4.14
370 ratings
Politics
Technology
Sociology
Moral Tribes Summary
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
by Joshua D. Greene 2013 432 pages
4.02
3.2K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
The Sane Society Summary
The Sane Society
by Erich Fromm 1955 386 pages
4.25
2.8K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
Enlightenment Now Summary
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker 2018 576 pages
4.20
31.5K ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
The Divide Summary
The Divide
A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
by Jason Hickel 2017 368 pages
4.62
3.5K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Moral Politics Summary
Moral Politics
How Liberals and Conservatives Think
by George Lakoff 1996 471 pages
4.03
1.7K ratings
Politics
Psychology
Philosophy
Fast Food Nation Summary
Fast Food Nation
The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser 2001 383 pages
3.75
206.1K ratings
Food
Sociology
Politics
Passages Summary
Passages
Predictable Crises of Adult Life
by Gail Sheehy 1976 576 pages
3.88
2.2K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
Pornland Summary
Pornland
How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
by Gail Dines 2010 204 pages
3.95
1.9K ratings
Feminism
Sexuality
Sociology
The Blank Slate Summary
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker 2002 560 pages
4.09
25.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
Rebel Cities Summary
Rebel Cities
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by David Harvey 2012 206 pages
3.92
2.1K ratings
Politics
Urbanism
Urban Studies
The New Geography of Jobs Summary
The New Geography of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti 2012 294 pages
4.03
2.7K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Requiem for the American Dream Summary
Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
by Noam Chomsky 2017 192 pages
4.21
3.7K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Custodians of Wonder Summary
Custodians of Wonder
Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
by Eliot Stein 2024 336 pages
4.22
803 ratings
History
Travel
Sociology
The Myth of Male Power Summary
The Myth of Male Power
by Warren Farrell 1993 448 pages
3.94
955 ratings
Psychology
Politics
Feminism
Far from the Tree Summary
Far from the Tree
Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
by Andrew Solomon 2012 962 pages
4.27
22.0K ratings
Psychology
Parenting
Science
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life Summary
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
by Katherine Ormerod 2018 256 pages
3.52
787 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Social Media
Beauty Pays Summary
Beauty Pays
Why Attractive People Are More Successful
by Daniel S. Hamermesh 2011 224 pages
3.17
142 ratings
Economics
Psychology
Self Help
Girls & Sex Summary
Girls & Sex
Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
by Peggy Orenstein 2016 303 pages
4.07
11.1K ratings
Feminism
Parenting
Sexuality
The Hite Report Summary
The Hite Report
A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
by Shere Hite 1976 638 pages
3.87
819 ratings
Feminism
Sexuality
Psychology
Modern Romance Summary
Modern Romance
by Aziz Ansari 2015 279 pages
3.80
189.0K ratings
Humor
Romance
Book Club
Look Again Summary
Look Again
The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
by Tali Sharot 2024 288 pages
3.66
964 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Personal Development
Collective Illusions Summary
Collective Illusions
Conformity, Complicity, and the Science of Why We Make Bad Decisions
by Todd Rose 2022 304 pages
4.06
955 ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
The Winner-Take-All Society Summary
The Winner-Take-All Society
Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank 1995 288 pages
3.70
257 ratings
Economics
Sociology
Business
The Struggle for Recognition Summary
The Struggle for Recognition
The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts
by Axel Honneth 1992 240 pages
4.14
298 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Man for Himself Summary
Man for Himself
An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
by Erich Fromm 1947 257 pages
4.18
2.9K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
The Boy Crisis Summary
The Boy Crisis
Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
by Warren Farrell 2019 368 pages
3.91
2.2K ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Sociology
The Upside of Irrationality Summary
The Upside of Irrationality
The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
by Dan Ariely 2010 334 pages
4.03
35.7K ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
The High Price of Materialism Summary
The High Price of Materialism
by Tim Kasser 2002 149 pages
3.65
708 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology
Civilized to Death Summary
Civilized to Death
What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
by Christopher Ryan 2018 400 pages
4.14
4.6K ratings
History
Philosophy
Sociology
Rationality Summary
Rationality
by Steven Pinker 2021 432 pages
3.84
6.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
The Expanding Circle Summary
The Expanding Circle
Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
by Peter Singer 1981 232 pages
4.02
626 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
Of Boys and Men Summary
Of Boys and Men
Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
by Richard V. Reeves 2022 298 pages
4.05
8.6K ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Parenting
Race After Technology Summary
Race After Technology
Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
by Ruha Benjamin 2019 258 pages
4.26
2.3K ratings
Race
Technology
Politics
Third Culture Kids Summary
Third Culture Kids
Growing Up Among Worlds
by David C. Pollock 1999 360 pages
4.09
2.2K ratings
Parenting
Psychology
Education
The Strange Death of Europe Summary
The Strange Death of Europe
Immigration, Identity, Islam
by Douglas Murray 2017 352 pages
4.15
12.1K ratings
Politics
History
Religion
How to Kill a City Summary
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
by Peter Moskowitz 2017 272 pages
4.09
3.6K ratings
Urban Planning
Politics
Urbanism
A Philosophy of Loneliness Summary
A Philosophy of Loneliness
by Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen 2015 240 pages
3.70
2.2K ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
The WEIRDest People in the World Summary
The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by Joseph Henrich 2020 706 pages
4.12
3.8K ratings
Psychology
History
Science
The Identity Trap Summary
The Identity Trap
A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
by Yascha Mounk 2023 414 pages
4.06
2.0K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Sociology
Filterworld Summary
Filterworld
How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka 2024 290 pages
3.63
5.1K ratings
Technology
Sociology
Science
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