45 Sociology books every undergraduate should read
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Source: Gellinger
There are hundred of Sociology books out there. Read through the list of suggested Sociology reading for Undergraduates and beginners.
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Erving Goffman – The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Penguin Psychology)
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George Mead – Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition
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Randall Collins – Four Sociological Traditions
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Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Penguin Social Sciences)
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Emile Durkheim – Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Routledge Classics)
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Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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W.E.B. DuBois – The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (Classic Reprint)
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Randall Collins – Interaction Ritual Chains (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
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Karl Marx – Capital: Volumes One and Two (Classics of World Literature)
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Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow
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Michael Omi and Howard Winant – Racial Formation in the United States
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Charles Mill – The Racial Contract
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Jackie Wang – Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e)/Intervention Series)
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Peter Berger – Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective (Pelican)
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Howard Becker – Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article: Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson – Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain (Cultural Studies Birmingham)
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Paul Willis – Learning to Labour
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Stuart Hall – Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order
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Dick Hebdige – Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)
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Erving Goffman – Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Penguin Social Sciences)
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Peter Singer – Practical Ethics
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Steven Lukes – Power: A Radical View
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Clive Ponting – A New Green History Of The World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
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Elijah Anderson – Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
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Larry E. Davis – Why Are They Angry With Us?: Essays on Race
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Malcolm X – Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Norbert Elias – The Civilizing Process
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Pierre Bourdieu – Distinction (Routledge Classics)
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Little Black Classics)
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Earl Wysong and Robert Perrucci – The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?, Fourth Edition
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Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt – Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Lewis A. Coser – Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context
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Michael J. Sandel – What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
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Carl Hammerschlag – The Dancing Healers
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Sidney G. Tarrow – Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
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Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper – The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts (Blackwell Readers in Sociology) (Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology)
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Lynne Ann De Spelder and Albert Lee Strickland – The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying
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Michael Marmot – The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
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James C. Scott – Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy Studies)
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C. Wright Mills – Sociological Imagination
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Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilization
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Jean Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation (The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
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George Ritzer – The McDonaldization of Society: Into the Digital Age
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Peter L. Berger – Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
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Peter L. Berger – The Desecularization of the World: The Resurgence of Religion in World Politics
Give some of these books a read and let us know what you think!
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