Sociology
Our social world shapes everything from how we think and behave to how we build our communities and technologies. These thought-provoking works examine human nature, cultural shifts, and the hidden patterns that drive our increasingly complex society.
Sociology Book Summaries
A State of Fear
How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic
Politics
Psychology
History
Plutocrats
The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Economics
Politics
Business
"I Have Nothing to Hide"
And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy
Politics
Science
Technology
Twilight of American Sanity
A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
Politics
Psychology
History
The Anarchist in the Library
How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
Library Science
Technology
Politics
How to Win a Cosmic War
God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
Religion
Politics
History
The Tell
The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Propaganda and the Public Mind
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Dirt on Clean
An Unsanitized History
History
Science
Microhistory
The Gift of Not Belonging
How Outsiders Thrive in a World of Joiners
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Science
History
Anthropology
The Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
Orientalism
History
Philosophy
Politics
Hive Mind
How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
Economics
Psychology
Sociology
Who's Your City?
How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
Economics
Sociology
Urbanism
Under the Influence
Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Psychology
Economics
Sociology
How Woke Won
The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason
Politics
Sociology
History
What's Mine Is Yours
The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
Business
Economics
Sociology
Static
Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
Politics
Journalism
Sociology
Weathering
The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
Race
Health
Science
The Rage of a Privileged Class
Race
Sociology
Politics
The Lies of the Land
Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
History
Urbanism
Politics
The Violence Project
How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
Politics
True Crime
Psychology
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind
How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Behind the Kitchen Door
Food
Social Justice
Politics
The New Elite
Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy
Business
Sociology
Economics
Riveted
The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe: The Science of Why Jokes Make ... Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe
Psychology
Science
Religion
SuperFreakonomics
Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Business
Science
Psychology
Broke, USA
From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
Economics
Politics
Poverty
What We Owe Each Other
A New Social Contract for a Better Society
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
Human Frontiers
The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Technology
Science
Sociology
Butterfly Economics
A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior
Economics
Sociology
Business
Do What You Love and Other Lies About Success and Happiness
Sociology
Politics
Economics
The Stupidity Paradox
The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work
Business
Psychology
Science
The Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50
Philosophy
History
Sociology
Billy No-Mates
How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem
Psychology
Sociology
Gender
Equal Is Unfair
America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
History
Politics
Philosophy
Assassination Generation
Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
Psychology
Sociology
Parenting
The People's Platform
Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
Technology
Politics
Sociology
May Contain Lies
How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It
Psychology
Science
Economics
Smuggler Nation
How Illicit Trade Made America
History
American History
Economics
Coming Apart
The State of White America, 1960-2010
Politics
History
Sociology
This View of Life
Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Science
Biology
Evolution
Voodoo Histories
The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
History
Politics
Conspiracy Theories
The Human Swarm
How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Science
History
Sociology
The Elements of Choice
Why the Way We Decide Matters
Psychology
Business
Science
One Nation Under Therapy
How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
Psychology
Politics
Philosophy
Stuck
Why We Can't (or Won't) Move On
Self Help
Psychology
Sociology
You are Being Lied To
The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes, and Cultural Myths
Politics
History
Conspiracy Theories
