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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 834,860 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 879,641 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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4.01 avg rating — 838,321 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 193,888 ratings
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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3.96 avg rating — 610,729 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 438,889 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 133,292 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.67 avg rating — 184,261 ratings
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 128,369 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 35,226 ratings
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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3.91 avg rating — 14,513 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
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4.19 avg rating — 208,097 ratings
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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4.26 avg rating — 18,859 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 118,042 ratings
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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4.06 avg rating — 6,283 ratings
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
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4.09 avg rating — 22,844 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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4.29 avg rating — 77,326 ratings
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
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3.89 avg rating — 26,364 ratings
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
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3.88 avg rating — 3,883 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,085 ratings
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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4.03 avg rating — 26,422 ratings
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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3.85 avg rating — 103,465 ratings
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
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3.84 avg rating — 36,038 ratings
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The Division of Labor in Society
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3.84 avg rating — 2,249 ratings
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Suicide: A Study in Sociology
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3.85 avg rating — 4,318 ratings
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Animal Farm
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,261,874 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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3.84 avg rating — 37,911 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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4.07 avg rating — 24,921 ratings
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The God Delusion
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3.90 avg rating — 277,256 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 107,591 ratings
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The Logic of Practice
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4.09 avg rating — 516 ratings
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
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4.12 avg rating — 4,210 ratings
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Language and Symbolic Power
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4.19 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
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4.06 avg rating — 1,667 ratings
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The McDonaldization of Society
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3.81 avg rating — 2,132 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,108,571 ratings
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Status Anxiety
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3.89 avg rating — 20,931 ratings
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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4.20 avg rating — 5,159 ratings
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The Sociological Imagination
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4.16 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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The Power Elite
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4.15 avg rating — 1,608 ratings
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness
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3.84 avg rating — 91,591 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 8,367 ratings
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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4.15 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
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Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
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4.12 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
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4.06 avg rating — 3,612 ratings
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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4.41 avg rating — 5,455 ratings
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For Marx
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3.93 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
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4.11 avg rating — 7,923 ratings
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Affluenza
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3.49 avg rating — 1,478 ratings
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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3.93 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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Stumbling on Happiness
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3.82 avg rating — 62,721 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 — 2,762 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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4.22 avg rating — 167,672 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 111,260 ratings
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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4.12 avg rating — 541 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 — 1,533 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,656,752 ratings
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Rules of Sociological Method
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3.76 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
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An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology
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4.19 avg rating — 392 ratings
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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3.98 avg rating — 7,252 ratings
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Closing Deals: Make an Offer
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4.23 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
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4.11 avg rating — 7,268 ratings
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The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction
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3.96 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 — 11,490 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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4.28 avg rating — 50,925 ratings
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Deschooling Society
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3.99 avg rating — 3,339 ratings
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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
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3.78 avg rating — 19,678 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 — 718 ratings
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Orientalism
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4.13 avg rating — 27,919 ratings
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The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
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4.13 avg rating — 5,089 ratings
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Modernity and the Holocaust
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4.41 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
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Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance
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3.98 avg rating — 1,298 ratings
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The Practice of Everyday Life
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4.10 avg rating — 3,984 ratings
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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3.97 avg rating — 2,526 ratings
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The Rise of the Network Society
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3.98 avg rating — 913 ratings
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
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3.87 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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3.92 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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3.85 avg rating — 478,850 ratings
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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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3.91 avg rating — 11,011 ratings
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Pledged - Secret Life Of Sororities
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3.22 avg rating — 8,825 ratings
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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4.12 avg rating — 9,401 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism
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4.08 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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4.38 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Evolution of Cooperation
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4.25 avg rating — 2,242 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 28,696 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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4.14 avg rating — 7,269 ratings
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
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3.94 avg rating — 3,119 ratings
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
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4.07 avg rating — 5,831 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.93 avg rating — 73,428 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.05 avg rating — 52,248 ratings
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The Authoritarian Personality
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3.80 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Legacies of Social Thought Series)
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3.92 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Epoca îndreptățirii
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4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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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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3.66 avg rating — 965 ratings
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The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide
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4.18 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men
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3.94 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 40,804 ratings
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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4.05 avg rating — 28,959 ratings
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A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
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3.78 avg rating — 480 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.
Still, most books are relevant to the title.