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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 726,884 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 818,257 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 785,018 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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3.65 avg rating — 188,300 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 567,810 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 382,334 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 129,328 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.63 avg rating — 148,677 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 118,759 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.23 avg rating — 30,453 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
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4.18 avg rating — 199,289 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 12,669 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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4.26 avg rating — 18,433 ratings
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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4.06 avg rating — 5,440 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
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4.26 avg rating — 11,037 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.95 avg rating — 105,544 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.28 avg rating — 69,640 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
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3.90 avg rating — 3,520 ratings
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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4.03 avg rating — 25,955 ratings
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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3.85 avg rating — 98,226 ratings
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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3.88 avg rating — 25,765 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 204,551 ratings
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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3.84 avg rating — 33,243 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 259,179 ratings
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The Division of Labor in Society
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3.83 avg rating — 2,029 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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3.84 avg rating — 35,811 ratings
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Animal Farm
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3.98 avg rating — 3,543,722 ratings
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
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3.84 avg rating — 3,720 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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4.06 avg rating — 23,302 ratings
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1984
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4.19 avg rating — 4,161,940 ratings
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The Logic of Practice
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4.10 avg rating — 487 ratings
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
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4.12 avg rating — 3,805 ratings
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Language and Symbolic Power
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4.19 avg rating — 856 ratings
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Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 16)
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4.05 avg rating — 1,612 ratings
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The McDonaldization of Society
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3.81 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 86,418 ratings
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Status Anxiety
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3.91 avg rating — 17,868 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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4.19 avg rating — 4,959 ratings
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The Power Elite
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4.14 avg rating — 1,435 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
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3.84 avg rating — 81,161 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.83 avg rating — 6,724 ratings
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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4.15 avg rating — 3,121 ratings
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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
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4.12 avg rating — 1,405 ratings
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
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4.05 avg rating — 3,375 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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4.40 avg rating — 5,204 ratings
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For Marx
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3.92 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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4.11 avg rating — 7,005 ratings
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Affluenza
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3.51 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,196,042 ratings
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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3.93 avg rating — 3,389 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 59,510 ratings
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before
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3.58 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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4.21 avg rating — 140,217 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.45 avg rating — 92,757 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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4.18 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Sociological Imagination
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4.16 avg rating — 2,847 ratings
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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4.16 avg rating — 1,325 ratings
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Rules of Sociological Method
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3.76 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
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An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
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4.19 avg rating — 365 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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3.98 avg rating — 6,410 ratings
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Closing Deals: Make an Offer
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4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
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4.12 avg rating — 6,856 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle: A New Way to Understand Complexity, Collapse, and Correction
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3.97 avg rating — 556 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.26 avg rating — 45,147 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 25,848 ratings
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Deschooling Society
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4.01 avg rating — 2,958 ratings
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
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3.78 avg rating — 19,313 ratings
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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber
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3.90 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Orientalism
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4.10 avg rating — 23,134 ratings
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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4.10 avg rating — 4,301 ratings
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Modernity and the Holocaust
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4.42 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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Outsiders
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3.96 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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The Practice of Everyday Life
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4.11 avg rating — 3,891 ratings
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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3.97 avg rating — 2,158 ratings
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The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume I
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3.98 avg rating — 889 ratings
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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3.87 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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3.90 avg rating — 1,331 ratings
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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3.92 avg rating — 10,114 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
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3.98 avg rating — 100 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 38,085 ratings
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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4.39 avg rating — 183 ratings
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The Evolution of Cooperation
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4.25 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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4.15 avg rating — 8,737 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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4.12 avg rating — 5,543 ratings
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
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3.97 avg rating — 2,661 ratings
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
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4.08 avg rating — 4,736 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality
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3.87 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges--And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
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3.64 avg rating — 893 ratings
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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
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3.19 avg rating — 8,413 ratings
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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
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4.14 avg rating — 77 ratings
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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4.54 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.88 avg rating — 390,627 ratings
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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
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3.93 avg rating — 1,423 ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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4.13 avg rating — 8,762 ratings
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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4.06 avg rating — 23,884 ratings
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A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
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3.77 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers
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3.61 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids
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3.89 avg rating — 3,242 ratings
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Social Movements, 1768-2004
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3.84 avg rating — 124 ratings
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#1: Journalism (even good journalism) is not sociology.
#2: "Social philosophy" is not social theory (though boundaries may be questionable)
#3: Sociology is not the residue of economics or psychology.
Still, most books are relevant to the title.