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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 86 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,682 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,394 ratings — published 1848
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,700 ratings — published 1904
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,538 ratings — published 1975
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,520 ratings — published 1978
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,696 ratings — published 1988
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 35,094 ratings — published 1961
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,729 ratings — published 1976
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,532 ratings — published 2009
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,788 ratings — published 1979
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,064 ratings — published 1983
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,846 ratings — published 1912
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,922 ratings — published 1959
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 41,132 ratings — published 1968
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,456 ratings — published 1966
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,579 ratings — published 1944
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,595 ratings — published 1989
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 15,133 ratings — published 1867
The Sociological Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,450 ratings — published 1959
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,532 ratings — published 1967
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,378 ratings — published 1949
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,480 ratings — published 2011
The Division of Labor in Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,367 ratings — published 1893
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,929 ratings — published 1917
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,876 ratings — published 1981
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,374 ratings — published 1947
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,500 ratings — published 1947
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,563 ratings — published 1956
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,116 ratings — published 2010
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.55 — 86,011 ratings — published 1516
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,629 ratings — published 1921
Outline of a Theory of Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,717 ratings — published 1972
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,817 ratings — published 1997
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,621 ratings — published 2010
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,749 ratings — published 1897
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,798 ratings — published 1966
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,422 ratings — published 2003
Liquid Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,257 ratings — published 1999
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,497 ratings — published 2007
Why Socialism Works (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 690 ratings — published 2017
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,757 ratings — published 1973
The Marx-Engels Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,109 ratings — published 1971
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,447 ratings — published 2024
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 889 ratings — published 2024
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,179 ratings — published 2018
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,606 ratings — published 1963
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,716 ratings — published 1513
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,904 ratings — published 1951
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 868,722 ratings — published 2000
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,885 ratings — published 1964
“Bullshit jobs proliferate today in large part because of the peculiar nature of managerial feudalism that has come to dominate wealthy economiesーbut to an increasing degree, all economies. They cause misery because human happiness is always caught up in a sense of having effects on the world; a feeling which most people, when they speak of their work, express through a language of social value. Yet at the same time they are aware that the greater the social value produced by a job, the less one is likely to be paid to do it.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“The point is that you brand a commodity, a commodity that is designed to be bought and sold. This is the central point of this book. They hyper-nationalism is just one more tactic by those seeking to sell a nation to make it into a saleable commodity, since such hyper-nationalists are easily convinced of simpleminded images of their nation.”
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