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Books that deal with various aspects of social psychology, economics, and so on.
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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The Communist Manifesto
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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The Division of Labor in Society
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
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Animal Farm
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Eric Weiner (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 38,327 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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The God Delusion
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
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The Logic of Practice
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
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Language and Symbolic Power
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
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The McDonaldization of Society
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,286,996 ratings
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Status Anxiety
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Alain de Botton (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 21,359 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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The Sociological Imagination
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4.16 avg rating — 3,286 ratings
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The Power Elite
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness
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3.84 avg rating — 93,327 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
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4.12 avg rating — 1,570 ratings
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
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4.06 avg rating — 3,641 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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4.41 avg rating — 5,493 ratings
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For Marx
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3.93 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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4.11 avg rating — 8,054 ratings
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Affluenza
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3.49 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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3.93 avg rating — 3,714 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 63,270 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 — 2,782 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 172,419 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 114,229 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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4.12 avg rating — 546 ratings
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
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4.15 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,748,548 ratings
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Rules of Sociological Method
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3.76 avg rating — 1,918 ratings
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An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
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4.18 avg rating — 397 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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3.98 avg rating — 7,393 ratings
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Closing Deals: Make an Offer
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4.21 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
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4.11 avg rating — 7,354 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
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Rebecca D. Costa (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
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4.14 avg rating — 11,835 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.29 avg rating — 52,420 ratings
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Deschooling Society
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3.99 avg rating — 3,430 ratings
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
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Ori Brafman (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 19,723 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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3.91 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Orientalism
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4.13 avg rating — 28,812 ratings
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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Modernity and the Holocaust
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Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance
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The Practice of Everyday Life
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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Stephanie Coontz (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,594 ratings
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The Rise of the Network Society
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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4.34 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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Pledged - Secret Life Of Sororities
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Alexandra Robbins (Goodreads Author)
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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The Evolution of Cooperation
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Silent Spring
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The Authoritarian Personality
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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Legacies of Social Thought Series)
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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Andrei Cristian (Goodreads Author)
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Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (Volume 19) (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century)
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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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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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