Sociology

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: Sociology

Below are non-fiction books with a focus on sociology

A

• Amerikaganistan, Dystopia Inc.: What Every Movement Activist Should Know by Dale Johnson

B

• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley

C

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

D

• Development and Connection in the Time of COVID-19: Corona’s Call for Conscious Choices by Cornelia C. Walther

E

• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
• The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh

F

• Forget About Heaven: Don’t Yell At Me, Take It Up With My Dead Mother by Kathleen Hoy Foley

G

• The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen

H

• The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

I

• Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

N

• [Upcoming] Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright

O

• Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said

P

• Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
• Post-Ottoman Coexistence: Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict edited by Rebecca Bryant

R

• Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
• Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand

S

• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
• The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
• Social Inequality, Economic Decline, and Plutocracy: An American Crisis by Dale L. Johnson
• Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
• The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr

T

• Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

W

• Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
• Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
• Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez