Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social activity, often with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare. Subject matter ranges from the micro level of agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and social structures.
Sociology is both topically and methodologically a very broad discipline. Its traditional focuses have included social stratification, social class,
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Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
The Look
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Abundance
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
The Message
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The Human Animal
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Non-Fiction Theme
67 books — 50 voters
The Republic by PlatoThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnThe Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge
216 books — 142 voters

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Outliers: The Story of Success
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Sociological Imagination
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
Suicide: A Study in Sociology
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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Leo Tolstoy
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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