Sociology

Updated July 30, 2024
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The new Jim Crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Alexander, Michelle.
Paper Book
Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the presidency...
Code of the street decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city
Anderson, Elijah.
Paper Book
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules--based largely on an individual's ability to command respect--is a powerful and...
Quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Cain, Susan.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement and revolutionized how the world sees introverts--and how introverts see themselves--by offering validation, inclusion, and inspiration "Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a...
Four sociological traditions
Collins, Randall, 1941-
Paper Book
The updated version of Collins's critically-acclaimed Three Sociological Traditions, this text presents a concise intellectual history of sociology organized around the development of four classic schools of thought: the conflict tradition of Marx and Weber, the ritual solidarity of Durkheim, the...
Collapse how societies choose to fail or succeed
Diamond, Jared M.
Paper Book
A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate change, poor...
Nickel and dimed on (not) getting by in America
Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Paper Book
Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in...
Outliers the story of success
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
Paper Book
Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Blink and The Bomber Mafia and host of the podcast Revisionist History, explores what sets high achievers apart--from Bill Gates to the Beatles--in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (...
The tipping point how little things can make a big difference
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior.   The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea,...
The managed heart commercialization of human feeling
Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 1940-
Ebook
In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules"...
Unequal childhoods class, race, and family life
Lareau, Annette.
Ebook
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing...
Normal accidents living with high-risk technologies
Perrow, Charles.
Paper Book
Analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable.
Bowling alone the collapse and revival of American community
Putnam, Robert D.
Paper Book
Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work--but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement." Drawing on vast new data that...
Essentials of sociology
Ritzer, George author.
Paper Book
Join the conversation with one of sociology's best-known thinkers. Essentials of Sociology, Second Edition adapted from Ritzer's Introduction to Sociology, Third Edition, provides the same rock-solid foundation in a shorter and more streamlined format. Like the original Ritzer text, ...
After the baby boomers how twenty- and thirty-somethings are shaping the future of American religion
Wuthnow, Robert.
Paper Book
Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed--and the influence these younger Americans in their twenties and thirties are having on the face of religion--are not so...

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