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Books that deal with various aspects of social psychology, economics, and so on.
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Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days
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Michael Oren Fitzgerald (Editor)
4.26 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field
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4.08 avg rating — 423 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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Dan Fagin (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 4,636 ratings
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Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change (Volume 75) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)
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4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
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3.89 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
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Classes in Contemporary Capitalism
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3.62 avg rating — 61 ratings
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History of Sociological Thought (Contributions in Sociology 35)
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Dan A. Chekki (Series Editor)
3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, deTocqueville, and the Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848
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4.06 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Classes
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3.67 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.01 avg rating — 32,578 ratings
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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4.05 avg rating — 18,987 ratings
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State, Power, Socialism
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3.92 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration
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3.89 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series)
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Stuart Hall (Editor)
4.05 avg rating — 716 ratings
score: 54,
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Empire
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The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History
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The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy
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3.64 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience
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3.98 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Ireland's Burning: How Climate Change Will Affect You
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Critique of Everyday Life
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Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
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Kevin P. Gallagher (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Growling Tiger, Roaring Dragon: India, China, and the New World Order
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The Hidden Injuries of Class
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4.09 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Power: A Radical View
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3.87 avg rating — 566 ratings
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The Philosophy of Money
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4.05 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Marxism and Morality
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3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Craftsman
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3.85 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
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The Fall of Public Man
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4.16 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach
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3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
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4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
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3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology
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3.78 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Lineages of the Absolutist State
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4.25 avg rating — 415 ratings
score: 26,
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European Revolutions, 1492-1992
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3.74 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Elites
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3.85 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The post-industrial society. Tomorrow's social history: classes, conflicts and culture in the programmed society
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3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 21,
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Sociology
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3.98 avg rating — 2,315 ratings
score: 19,
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The Sociology of Marx (Morningside Books)
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3.72 avg rating — 89 ratings
score: 18,
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State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in Its Place
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3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities
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3.90 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Capitalism and Social Democracy
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3.88 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Structure of Social Action, Volume I: Marshall, Pareto, Durkheim
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3.61 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Fascists
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3.96 avg rating — 134 ratings
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What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism
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3.68 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Political sociology: A reader
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Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
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3.71 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics, Expanded Edition
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3.64 avg rating — 101 ratings
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China
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3.84 avg rating — 545 ratings
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History of Sociological Analysis
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Bottomore (editor)
4.16 avg rating — 19 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.
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