50 Sociology Books To Enhance Your Sociological Imagination

From thesociologicalmail.com, April 2, 2019.

1. Friedrich Engels & Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto
2. Emile Durkheim – Suicide: A Study in Sociology
3. Pierre Bourdieu – Distinction
4. Norbert Elias – The Civilizing Process
5. Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
6. C. Wright Mills – The Sociological Imagination
7. Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex
8. Howard S. Becker – Outsiders: Studies in Sociology of Deviance
9. Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
10. Micheal Kimmell – Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
11. Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
12. Sue Pryce – Fixing Drugs: The Politics of Drug Prohibition
13. Raewyn Connell – Masculinities
14. Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge v. 1
15. Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality: The Use of Pleasure v. 2
16. Michel Foucault – The Care of the Self
17. Theodor W. Adorno & Max Horkheimer – Dialectic of Enlightenment
18. Malcolm Gladwell – The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
19. W. E. B. Du Bois – The Souls of Black Folk
20. Robert D. Putnam – Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
21. Steven D. Levitt – Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
22. Joseph Campbell – The Power of Myth
23. Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America
24. Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
25. Trevor Noah – Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
26. Michelle Alexander – The New Jim Crow
27. George Ritzer – The McDonaldization of Society
28. Aziz Ansari – Modern Romance
29. Thorstein Veblen – The Theory of the Leisure Class
30. Peter L. Berger – The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
31. Naomi Wolf – The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
32. Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
33. Owen Jones – Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
34. Emile Durkheim – The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
35. Sudhir Venkatesh – Gang Leader for a Day
36. Emile Durkheim – The Division of Labor in Society
37. Jessica Valenti – The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
38. C. Wright Mills – The Power Elite
39. Erving Goffman – Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
40. Betty Friedan – The Feminine Mystique
41. Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers: The Story of Success
42. Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
43. Peggy Orenstein – Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
44. Erving Goffman – Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
45. Max Weber – Economy and Society
46. Bell Hooks – Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
47. Karl Marx – Capital: Critique of Political Economy v. 1
48. Naomi Klein – No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics
49. Sylvia Walby – Theorizing Patriarchy
50. Michel Foucault – Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984