The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

1776 ★ 4.1

The Enduring Vision

Paul S. Boyer

1993 ★ 4.7

Understanding public policy

Thomas R. Dye

1972 ★ 4.6

The fourth turning

William Strauss, Neil Howe

1996 ★ 4.2

De la démocratie en Amérique

Gustave de Beaumont, Alexis de Tocqueville

1835 ★ 4.7

Readings for diversity and social justice

Warren J. Blumenfeld, Heather W. Hackman, Carmelita Rose Castaneda et al.

2000

Our sexuality

Robert L. Crooks, Karla Baur, Crooks, Robert

1983

Working

Studs Terkel

1974

The power elite

C. Wright Mills

1956

The bell curve

Charles A. Murray, Richard J. Herrnstein

1994 ★ 3.7

The way we never were

Stephanie Coontz

1992 ★ 3.0

White trash

Nancy Isenberg

2016 ★ 3.8

Dreamland

Sam Quinones

2015 ★ 4.0

Hard times

Studs Terkel

1970

Understanding social problems

Caroline Schacht, David Knox, Adie Nelson et al.

1997

Racecraft

Barbara J. Fields, Karen E. Fields

2012 ★ 4.7

Hot, flat, and crowded

Oliver Wyman, Susan Karr, Thomas L. Friedman et al.

2008 ★ 4.2

Crabgrass Frontier

Kenneth T. Jackson

1985

Megatrends

John Naisbitt

1982

Race, reform and rebellion

Manning Marable

1984

Voices of freedom

Eric Foner

2013

Society

John J. Macionis

1996

Sundown Towns

James W. Loewen

2005

Race and Reunion

David W. Blight

2002

Readings for diversity and social justice

Maurianne Adams

2010

The new urban sociology

M. Gottdiener, Mark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison

1994

My name is Mahtob

Mahtob Mahmoody

2015

The ethnic myth

Stephen Steinberg

1981

The reluctant welfare state

Bruce S. Jansson

1993

The Culture of Fear

Barry Glassner

1999