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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 1086 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.01 — 868,600 ratings — published 2000
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1074 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 891,800 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1039 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,619 ratings — published 2016
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 890 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,695 ratings — published 1904
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 858 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,332,309 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 849 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,742 ratings — published 1997
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 771 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,608 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 767 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.01 — 912,172 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 742 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,492 ratings — published 2020
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 718 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,918 ratings — published 1959
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 700 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,907 ratings — published 2001
The Sociological Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 672 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,448 ratings — published 1959
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 641 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,748 ratings — published 1897
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 630 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.00 — 344,953 ratings — published 2019
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 613 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,955 ratings — published 2019
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 597 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.07 — 486,172 ratings — published 2012
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 588 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,325 ratings — published 1848
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 582 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,454 ratings — published 1966
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 570 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,522 ratings — published 1975
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 569 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,617 ratings — published 2016
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 568 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.17 — 41,747 ratings — published 1985
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 556 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,545 ratings — published 2018
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.96 — 631,492 ratings — published 2005
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 526 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,735 ratings — published 2000
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,398 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 480 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,441 ratings — published 2023
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,787 ratings — published 1979
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 477 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.30 — 222,611 ratings — published 2024
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 452 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.79 — 127,695 ratings — published 2021
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 452 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,360 ratings — published 2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,795 ratings — published 2004
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,023 ratings — published 2010
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 393 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,355 ratings — published 2016
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 388 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,164 ratings — published 2018
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 375 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,466 ratings — published 2018
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,502 ratings — published 1951
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 370 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.97 — 194,638 ratings — published 2013
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,765 ratings — published 2015
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.80 — 190,689 ratings — published 2015
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 344 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,512 ratings — published 1978
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,528 ratings — published 1967
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 342 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,083 ratings — published 2019
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,060 ratings — published 1983
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.31 — 46,024 ratings — published 1903
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,694 ratings — published 1988
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 334 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,666 ratings — published 2018
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,846 ratings — published 1912
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.75 — 207,037 ratings — published 2001
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 330 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,866 ratings — published 2015
The Division of Labor in Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,367 ratings — published 1893
“It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed."
"That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.”
― Witches Abroad
"That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.”
― Witches Abroad
“There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.”
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