Sociology
Our social world shapes everything from how we think and behave to how we build our communities and technologies. These thought-provoking works examine human nature, cultural shifts, and the hidden patterns that drive our increasingly complex society.
Sociology Book Summaries
What We Owe Each Other
A New Social Contract for a Better Society
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The Spirit Level
Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Politics
Economics
Sociology
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism
A Warning to the Global Middle Class
Politics
Economics
History
The Nones
Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going
Religion
Sociology
History
Woke Racism
How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Politics
Race
Sociology
A Human History of Emotion
How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
History
Psychology
Science
Corruptible
Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Politics
Psychology
History
The End of Burnout
Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
Psychology
Business
Sociology
Work Won't Love You Back
How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
Politics
Business
Labor
Corruptible
Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
Politics
Psychology
History
Powershift
Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century
Politics
Economics
Business
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
Memoir
History
Essays
Citizens
Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
Politics
Sociology
Society
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
History
Race
Social Justice
One Nation Under Therapy
How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
The Age of the Strongman
How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
Politics
History
Sociology
You Can't Read This Book
Censorship in an Age of Freedom
Politics
Philosophy
History
Mindreader
The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Status and Culture
How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Sociology
Fashion
Psychology
Like, Comment, Subscribe
How YouTube Drives Google's Dominance and Controls Our Culture
Business
Technology
History
The Chaos Machine
The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
Technology
Psychology
Politics
Fix the System, Not the Women
Feminism
Politics
Womens
Criminal (In)Justice
What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most
Politics
Sociology
Law
Nice Racism
How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
American Marxism
Politics
History
Philosophy
Young, Gifted, and Black
Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Education
African American
Social Justice
Virtual Society
The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
Technology
History
Sociology
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Politics
Sociology
Urbanism
Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps
How We're Different and What to Do About It
Psychology
Self Help
Relationships
Survival of the Richest
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Politics
Economics
Technology
Cultures and Organizations
Software of the Mind
Business
Cultural
Psychology
The Righteous Mind
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
American Made
What Happens to People When Work Disappears
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Smart on Crime
A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
Politics
Memoir
Sociology
The Four Pivots
Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
Social Justice
Self Help
Politics
The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Psychology
History
Science
I Got Schooled
The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap
Education
Teaching
Sociology
The World Cafe
Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
Leadership
Business
Communication
The Rage of a Privileged Class
Race
Sociology
Politics
Stuck
Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On
Self Help
Psychology
Sociology
X Saves the World
How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
Sociology
History
Pop Culture
Billy No-Mates
How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem
Psychology
Sociology
Gender
Viral Justice
How We Grow the World We Want
Social Justice
Race
Politics
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice
Politics
Sociology
Social Justice
Superman is an Arab
Feminism
Lebanon
Essays
How Woke Won
The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason
Politics
Sociology
History
Not Working
Losing a Job in Today's Great Recession
Sociology
Economics
Social Psychology
A Very Short Introduction
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
The Challenger Launch Decision
Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
History
Science
Space
The Great Escape
A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
History
Politics
Race