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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 1059 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.01 — 853,764 ratings — published 2000
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1039 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 863,654 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1001 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,477 ratings — published 2016
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 860 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,074 ratings — published 1904
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 819 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,998 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 818 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,253,287 ratings — published 2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 760 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,035 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 753 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,862 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 693 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,763 ratings — published 2020
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 683 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,393 ratings — published 2001
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 674 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,594 ratings — published 1959
The Sociological Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 632 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,340 ratings — published 1959
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 619 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.00 — 335,872 ratings — published 2019
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 615 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,530 ratings — published 1897
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 585 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.08 — 473,982 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 572 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.84 — 502,739 ratings — published 2016
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 571 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,966 ratings — published 1848
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 560 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,334 ratings — published 1966
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 544 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,028 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 541 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,931 ratings — published 2018
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.96 — 621,282 ratings — published 2005
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,832 ratings — published 1975
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 520 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,107 ratings — published 1985
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 506 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,074 ratings — published 2000
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 457 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 65,729 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 445 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,983 ratings — published 2023
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 444 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,606 ratings — published 2015
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Paperback)
by (shelved 442 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,597 ratings — published 1979
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 441 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,553 ratings — published 2010
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,590 ratings — published 2004
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 415 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.81 — 116,616 ratings — published 2021
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 397 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.32 — 173,102 ratings — published 2024
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 385 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,842 ratings — published 2016
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 368 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,432 ratings — published 2013
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 364 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,914 ratings — published 2018
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 362 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,008 ratings — published 2018
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,913 ratings — published 1951
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,474 ratings — published 2015
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 354 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.80 — 189,841 ratings — published 2015
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 340 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,313 ratings — published 2019
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,501 ratings — published 2001
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 324 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,751 ratings — published 2015
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,766 ratings — published 1912
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 319 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.15 — 177,016 ratings — published 2018
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,849 ratings — published 1903
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,336 ratings — published 1988
The Division of Labor in Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,312 ratings — published 1893
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,595 ratings — published 1921
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,313 ratings — published 1983
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,178 ratings — published 1949
“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”
― The Ministry of Fear
― The Ministry of Fear
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”
― The Sociological Imagination
― The Sociological Imagination












