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Sociology

1. The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

   Helmut Walser Smith

   One of the most dramatic explorations of a German town in the grip of anti-Semitic passion ever written.More

2. The Sociology of News

   Michael Schudson

   The Sociology of News offers a brief, but comprehensive account of the origins, structures, operating practices, codes, and cultures of the contemporary news media, analyzing the question of the consequences of news on society—and politics, in particular.More

3. The Jungle

   Upton Sinclair, Clare Virginia Eby

   The Jungle's influence has been extraordinary for a literary work. Upton Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is widely credited with awakening the public fury that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation.More

4. Globalization in World History

   A G. Hopkins

   Globalization has become an issue of the greatest urgency in the first decade of the new century.
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5. Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons

   Lynn Peril

   From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal.More

6. Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism

   Walter LaFeber

   New Edition

   Walter LaFeber's timely analysis looks at the ways that triumphant capitalism, coupled with high-tech telecommunications, is conquering the nations of the world, one mind—one pair of feet—at a time.More

7. White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America

   Jill Andresky Fraser

   How corporate greed and mismanagement ate the American dream.More

8. Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: World Migration & U.S. Policy

   Michael S. Teitelbaum, Myron Weiner

   The influx of refugees, asylum seekers, and other international migrants is increasingly regarded not only as a major humanitarian challenge but also as a political problem and a threat to national and international security.
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9. The Feminine Mystique

   Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen

   The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world.More

10. The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy

    Theda Skocpol

    An eye-opening look at how America’s social policy has been hijacked by a rhetoric of extremes.More

11. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

    Elijah Anderson

    Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)More

12. Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape

    Charlotte Pierce-Baker

    In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.
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13. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

    Richard Sennett

    A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of WorkingMore

14. The Improvised Woman: Single Women Reinventing Single Life

    Marcelle Clements

    "A remarkable new book. . . . Marcelle Clements's The Improvised Woman has that exhilarating Eureka! quality. . . . In its modest, quizzical way, The Improvised Woman is a visionary work." —MirabellaMore

15. The Tender Passion: The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud

    Peter Gay

    The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.More