Introduction to Sociology Recommended Reads
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Rules of the Sociological Method (1895) by Emile Durkheim
Democracy in America (1840) by Alexis de Tocqueville
Suicide: A Study in Sociology
The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) by Max Weber
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) by Joseph Campbell
Existentialism and Sociology: A study of Jean-Paul Sartre (1976) by Ian Craib
The Lonely Crowd (1950) by Reuel Denney, Nathan Glazer and David Riesman
The Sociological Imagination (1959) by C. Wright Mills
Madness and Civilization (1961) by Michel Foucault
The Power Elite (1956) by C. Wright Mills
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) by Erving Goffman
Stigma (1963) by Erving Goffman
The Social Construction of Reality (1966) by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912) by Emile Durkheim
The Sociology of Religion (c. 1921) by Max Weber
The Battle for God (2000) by Karen Armstrong
When Religion Becomes Evil (2002) by Charles Kimball
God is Not One (2010) by Stephen Prothero
Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) by Jared Diamond
Bowling Alone (2000) by Robert D. Putnam
Culture Jam (2000) by Kalle Lasn
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) by Barbara Ehrenreich
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (2008) by Sudhir
Venkatesh
The McDonaldization of Society (2004) by George Ritzer
Outsiders (1966) by Howard Becker
The Blank Slate (2002) by Steven Pinker
Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled And More Miserable Than Ever Before (2006) by Jean Twenge
The Wisdom of Crowds (2004) by James Surowiecki
Freakonomics (2005) by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
The Lucifer Effect (2007) by Philip Zimbardo
Guyland (2008) by Michael Kimmel
Sidewalk (2000) by Mitchell Duneier
Tally's Corner (1967) by Elliott Liebow
Coming to America (1990) by Roger Daniels
Other People's Children (1995) by Lisa Delpit
Race Rules (1996) by Michael Eric Dyson
The Earth Shall Weep (1998) by James Wilson
Harvest of Empire (2001) by Juan Gonzales
Unequal Childhoods (2003) by Annette Lareau
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecroft
The Second Sex (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir
The Feminine Mystique (1963) by Betty Friedan
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) by Bell Hooks
The Beauty Myth (1991) by Naomi Wolf
Female Chauvinist Pigs (2005) by Ariel Levy
The Purity Myth (2009) by Jessica Valenti