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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 1050 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.01 — 848,984 ratings — published 2000
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1022 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 854,809 ratings — published 2008
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 991 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,811 ratings — published 2016
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 851 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,901 ratings — published 1904
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 810 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,228,458 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 810 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.04 — 450,666 ratings — published 1997
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 752 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,070 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 752 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.01 — 891,058 ratings — published 2005
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 683 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,943 ratings — published 2001
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 682 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,527 ratings — published 2020
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 665 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,485 ratings — published 1959
The Sociological Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 618 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,308 ratings — published 1959
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 611 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.00 — 332,908 ratings — published 2019
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 611 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,453 ratings — published 1897
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 580 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,988 ratings — published 2012
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 571 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.84 — 496,177 ratings — published 2016
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 552 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,284 ratings — published 1966
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 550 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.68 — 193,070 ratings — published 1848
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 543 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,130 ratings — published 2018
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 537 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.96 — 618,069 ratings — published 2005
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 536 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,304 ratings — published 1975
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 535 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.34 — 162,367 ratings — published 2019
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.17 — 37,095 ratings — published 1985
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 501 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,871 ratings — published 2000
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 445 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 64,605 ratings — published 2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,397 ratings — published 2010
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 442 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.19 — 283,095 ratings — published 2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,244 ratings — published 2004
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 433 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,867 ratings — published 2023
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,537 ratings — published 1979
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 408 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.81 — 113,218 ratings — published 2021
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,715 ratings — published 2016
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 371 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.32 — 155,663 ratings — published 2024
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.97 — 190,491 ratings — published 2013
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 359 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,685 ratings — published 2018
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,089 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,976 ratings — published 2015
Modern Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.80 — 189,640 ratings — published 2015
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,737 ratings — published 1951
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 338 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,813 ratings — published 2019
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,390 ratings — published 2001
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,500 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.16 — 175,157 ratings — published 2018
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,730 ratings — published 1912
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.31 — 44,564 ratings — published 1903
The Division of Labor in Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as sociology)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,291 ratings — published 1893
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,577 ratings — published 1921
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,104 ratings — published 1983
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,552 ratings — published 1949
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 302 times as sociology)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,294 ratings — published 2008
“That was followed by Sharp saying, “Mick, it is Sharp here. I have an urgent fire mission for you. This is greatly bigger than I thought, and I just know that the Noggies will attack us soon! Request fire upon grid reference which will be given to you by Sunray Delta Six”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
“…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sexual conquest, committing suicide.
The marathon is a form of demonstrative suicide, suicide as advertising: it is running to show you are capable of getting every last drop of energy out of yourself, to prove it… to prove what? That you are capable of finishing. Graffiti carry the same message. They simply say: I’m so-and-so and I exist! They are free publicity for existence.
Do we continually have to prove to ourselves that we exist? A strange sign of weakness, harbinger of a new fanaticism for a faceless performance, endlessly self-evident.”
― America
The marathon is a form of demonstrative suicide, suicide as advertising: it is running to show you are capable of getting every last drop of energy out of yourself, to prove it… to prove what? That you are capable of finishing. Graffiti carry the same message. They simply say: I’m so-and-so and I exist! They are free publicity for existence.
Do we continually have to prove to ourselves that we exist? A strange sign of weakness, harbinger of a new fanaticism for a faceless performance, endlessly self-evident.”
― America
