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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 890,579 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 911,431 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 867,877 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.66 avg rating — 196,860 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 631,026 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 472,941 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 135,192 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.70 avg rating — 209,778 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 133,183 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.23 avg rating — 38,422 ratings
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In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What To Do About It
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4.53 avg rating — 51 ratings
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In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What To Do About It (Contemporary Social Issues Book 32)
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4.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
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4.19 avg rating — 212,386 ratings
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In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What to Do about It
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4.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 15,658 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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4.26 avg rating — 19,071 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 124,970 ratings
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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4.04 avg rating — 6,910 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
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4.31 avg rating — 15,086 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.28 avg rating — 83,162 ratings
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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3.89 avg rating — 26,795 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,998 ratings
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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4.03 avg rating — 26,783 ratings
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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3.85 avg rating — 106,097 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
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3.87 avg rating — 4,166 ratings
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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3.83 avg rating — 37,544 ratings
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Educating the Human Brain
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4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.03 avg rating — 4,808,626 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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3.84 avg rating — 39,286 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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4.07 avg rating — 26,039 ratings
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The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
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3.90 avg rating — 288,258 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 118,433 ratings
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The Division of Labor in Society
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3.84 avg rating — 2,364 ratings
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
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3.86 avg rating — 4,747 ratings
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1984
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4.21 avg rating — 5,763,670 ratings
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The Logic of Practice
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4.10 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Language and Symbolic Power
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4.18 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
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4.06 avg rating — 1,716 ratings
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
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4.11 avg rating — 4,447 ratings
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The McDonaldization of Society
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3.80 avg rating — 2,209 ratings
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Status Anxiety
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3.89 avg rating — 22,504 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness
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3.84 avg rating — 96,877 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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4.21 avg rating — 5,368 ratings
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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
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4.11 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
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The Sociological Imagination
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4.15 avg rating — 3,444 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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4.11 avg rating — 8,484 ratings
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The Power Elite
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4.15 avg rating — 1,738 ratings
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Affluenza
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3.48 avg rating — 1,515 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 9,710 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 64,344 ratings
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before
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3.58 avg rating — 2,810 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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4.21 avg rating — 184,392 ratings
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Distinction
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4.16 avg rating — 3,773 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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4.41 avg rating — 5,583 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 122,301 ratings
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
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4.07 avg rating — 3,759 ratings
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For Marx
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3.93 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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4.11 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Climate Change Science: A Primer for Sustainable Development
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4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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3.93 avg rating — 3,845 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,990,639 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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3.98 avg rating — 7,876 ratings
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Closing Deals: Make an Offer
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4.17 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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4.14 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
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4.11 avg rating — 7,541 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
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3.96 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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4.13 avg rating — 12,951 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.30 avg rating — 56,356 ratings
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Deschooling Society
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3.98 avg rating — 3,598 ratings
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Rules of Sociological Method
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3.75 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
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3.78 avg rating — 19,816 ratings
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An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
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4.19 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Orientalism
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4.14 avg rating — 31,438 ratings
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Modernity and the Holocaust
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4.40 avg rating — 1,568 ratings
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The Rise of the Network Society
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3.97 avg rating — 940 ratings
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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3.87 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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3.94 avg rating — 1,745 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.83 avg rating — 515,090 ratings
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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4.27 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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3.91 avg rating — 11,687 ratings
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Pledged - Secret Life Of Sororities
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3.22 avg rating — 8,880 ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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4.12 avg rating — 9,780 ratings
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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber
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3.91 avg rating — 740 ratings
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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4.38 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Evolution of Cooperation
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4.25 avg rating — 2,437 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.02 avg rating — 31,099 ratings
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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4.13 avg rating — 5,676 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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4.14 avg rating — 8,595 ratings
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Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance
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3.97 avg rating — 1,427 ratings
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
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4.07 avg rating — 6,410 ratings
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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3.98 avg rating — 2,826 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 75,691 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 57,267 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality
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3.80 avg rating — 396 ratings
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The Practice of Everyday Life
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4.10 avg rating — 4,057 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
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4.09 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century) (Volume 19)
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
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3.67 avg rating — 996 ratings
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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
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4.18 avg rating — 78 ratings
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#1: Journalism (even good journalism) is not sociology.
#2: "Social philosophy" is not social theory (though boundaries may be questionable)
#3: Sociology is not the residue of economics or psychology.
Still, most books are relevant to the title.