6 must-read sociology books like Sociological Theory by George Ritzer

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Sociological Theory

By: George Ritzer

4.00

Format: 757 pages, Hardcover

Written by one of the foremost authorities in American sociological theory, this comprehensive text…

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1. Modernity and the Holocaust

By: Zygmunt Bauman

4.42

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

A new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember, But What?" tackles the difficult issues of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"فقد وقعت هذه الجريمة "بعيدًا هناك" ، في زمن آخر وبلد آخر. وكلما أُلقي اللوم "عليهم" ، كلما كنا "نحن" في أمان، وكلنا قل أضطرارنا إلى الدفاع عن هذا الأمان"

-Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust

"t was not illiterate savages, but graduates of the finest educational systems of the West who designed the gas chambers used to burn millions of innocent men, women and children in Germany."

-Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust

"To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who rejoice in the 'stay of execution' of their factory thanks to big new or…"

-Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust

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2. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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3. Sophie’s World

By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller

3.96

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more

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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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4. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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5. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Mervyn Peake , Vladimir Nabokov , Dan Chaon

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleas… read more

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6. On Television

By: Pierre Bourdieu , Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

"On Television" exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what… read more

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  • social science
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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7. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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8. The Malady of Death

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more

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9. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • nonfiction

10. Classical Sociological Theory

By: George Ritzer , Douglas J. Goodman

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

With one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory as lead author, this best-selling text … read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • school
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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11. The Death of the Author

By: Roland Barthes

4.00

Format: 126 pages,

"The Death of the Author" is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes… read more

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  • nonfiction

12. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India

By: None

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spi… read more

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13. The Time Machine

By: H.G. Wells , Greg Bear , Carlo Pagetti

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

“I’ve had a most amazing time....” So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account … read more

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"For after the Battle comes quiet."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller."

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

"[...] The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. [...]"

-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

14. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more

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15. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

16. Returning to Reims

By: Didier Eribon , George Chauncey , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sex… read more

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17. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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18. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • school
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

19. Rules of Sociological Method

By: Émile Durkheim

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

First published in 1895: Emile Durkheim's masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology--now … read more

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20. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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21. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

By: Erving Goffman , Sven Bergström

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has emp… read more

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22. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

By: Erving Goffman

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigmais analyzes a person's feelings… read more

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23. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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24. On Individuality and Social Forms

By: Georg Simmel , Morris Janowitz , None

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociol… read more

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25. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school
  • read for school
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

26. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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27. Twilight of the Idols

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more

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28. Qui a tué mon père

By: Édouard Louis

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more

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  • nonfiction
"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

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29. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

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"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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30. Sociological Theory

By: George Ritzer

4.00

Format: 757 pages, Hardcover

Written by one of the foremost authorities in American sociological theory, this comprehensive text… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • school
  • academic
  • read for school
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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31. Ett delat samhälle : makt, intersektionalitet och social skiktning

By: Christofer Edling

3.55

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Sociologin har genom alla tider sysslat med samma problemställning: Hur ska vi förstå samhällets so… read more

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  • sociology

7 Top history books like Sociological Theory by George Ritzer

Transform Your Habits

Modernity and the Holocaust

Zygmunt Bauman

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Classical Sociological Theory

George Ritzer , Douglas J. Goodman

2.33

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Transform Your Habits

Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)

John Fante

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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Jack Kerouac

3.61

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