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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,084 ratings — published 1975
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,830 ratings — published 1904
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,832 ratings — published 1978
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 191,542 ratings — published 1848
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,152 ratings — published 1976
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,011 ratings — published 1983
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,103 ratings — published 1961
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,516 ratings — published 1979
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,715 ratings — published 1912
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 37,966 ratings — published 2009
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,447 ratings — published 1959
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,209 ratings — published 1968
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,272 ratings — published 1966
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,007 ratings — published 1989
The Sociological Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,289 ratings — published 1959
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,194 ratings — published 1944
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,215 ratings — published 1887
The Division of Labor in Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,280 ratings — published 1893
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,868 ratings — published 1967
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,326 ratings — published 1949
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,013 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,487 ratings — published 1997
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,422 ratings — published 1897
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,522 ratings — published 1966
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,203 ratings — published 1947
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,062 ratings — published 1947
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,669 ratings — published 2010
Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,569 ratings — published 1921
Outline of a Theory of Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,679 ratings — published 1972
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,508 ratings — published 1981
Liquid Modernity (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,769 ratings — published 1999
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,451 ratings — published 2007
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,931 ratings — published 2010
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,474 ratings — published 1963
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 374,882 ratings — published 1513
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,398 ratings — published 1964
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 36,701 ratings — published 1985
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 847,262 ratings — published 2000
The Marx-Engels Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,960 ratings — published 1971
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,581 ratings — published 2020
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,154 ratings — published 2003
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 3.78 — 56,299 ratings — published 1762
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,854 ratings — published 1984
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,300 ratings — published 1961
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,373 ratings — published 1962
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,146 ratings — published 1951
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 23,507 ratings — published 1988
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,481 ratings — published 1952
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,944 ratings — published 2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as social-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,218,816 ratings — published 2011
“The point is that you brand a commodity, a commodity that is designed to be bought and sold. This is the central point of this book. They hyper-nationalism is just one more tactic by those seeking to sell a nation to make it into a saleable commodity, since such hyper-nationalists are easily convinced of simpleminded images of their nation.”
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“European women's "sexual fear" appears to arise in special circumstances of unequal power structures at times of particular political pressure: when the dominant power group perceives itself as threatened and vulnerable. Protecting the virtue of white women was the pretext for instituting draconian measures against indigenous populations [...] the actual level of rape and sexual assault bore no relation to the hysteria that the subject aroused.”
― Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History
― Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History
