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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 — 16,651 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 208,154 ratings — published 1848
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,588 ratings — published 1904
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,190 ratings — published 1975
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,178 ratings — published 1978
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,493 ratings — published 1988
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,653 ratings — published 1961
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,553 ratings — published 1976
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,711 ratings — published 2009
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,755 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 — 16,946 ratings — published 1983
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,839 ratings — published 1912
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,865 ratings — published 1959
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,794 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 — 4,430 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 — 5,528 ratings — published 1944
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,426 ratings — published 1989
The Sociological Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,427 ratings — published 1959
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,976 ratings — published 1867
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,349 ratings — published 1967
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,986 ratings — published 1949
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,215 ratings — published 2011
The Division of Labor in Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,359 ratings — published 1893
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,446 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 4.19 — 1,537 ratings — published 1956
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 34,809 ratings — published 2010
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,735 ratings — published 1917
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.55 — 85,492 ratings — published 1516
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,623 ratings — published 1921
Outline of a Theory of Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,713 ratings — published 1972
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 470,720 ratings — published 1997
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 36,450 ratings — published 1981
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,356 ratings — published 1947
Liquid Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,189 ratings — published 1999
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,126 ratings — published 2010
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,721 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 — 9,747 ratings — published 1966
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,328 ratings — published 2003
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,010 ratings — published 2007
Why Socialism Works (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 680 ratings — published 2017
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,655 ratings — published 1973
The Marx-Engels Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,094 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 — 1,433 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 — 868 ratings — published 2024
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,708 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 — 2,592 ratings — published 1963
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,363 ratings — published 1513
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,709 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 — 866,114 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 — 7,817 ratings — published 1964
“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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“Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes dissimilar things comparable by reducing them to abstract quantities.”
― Dialectic of Enlightenment
― Dialectic of Enlightenment
