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This bibliography of sociology is a list of works, organized by subdiscipline, on the subject of sociology. Some of the works are selected from general anthologies of sociology; other works are selected because they are notable enough to be mentioned in a general history of sociology or one of its subdisciplines.

Sociology studies society using various methods of empirical investigation to understand human social activity, from the micro level of individual agency and interaction to the macro level of systems and social structure.

Foundations

Cover of the French edition of the Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim.

See also: History of sociology

• Comte, Auguste (2009) [1865]. Discours sur l'ensemble du positivisme [A General View of Positivism]. Translated by J. H. Bridges (Reprint ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-00064-2.
• Marx, Karl; Engels, Frederick (1998) [1846]. The German Ideology. Including Theses on Feuerbach and introduction to The critique of political economy (1st ed.). Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-57392-258-6.
• Marx, Karl (2007) [1867]. Das Kapital. Gardners Books. ISBN 978-1-934568-43-9.
• Weber, Max (2002) [1904]. Die protestantische Ethik und der 'Geist' des Kapitalismus [The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]. Translated by Peter Baehr; Gordon C. Wells. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-043921-2. (Available online)

Puts forward a thesis that Puritan ethic and ideas had influenced the development of capitalism. However religious devotion usually was accompanied by rejection of mundane affairs including economic pursuit. Why was that not the case with Protestantism? Weber addresses that paradox in that work.

• Durkheim, Emile (1997) [1893]. De La Division Du Travail Social [The division of labor in society] (1st paperback ed.). New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83638-6.
• — (1997) [1897]. Le Suicide [Suicide : a study in sociology]. The Free Press. ISBN 0-684-83632-7.

A case study of suicide rates amongst Catholic, Protestant and Jewish populations, distinguished sociological analysis from psychology or philosophy. Also a major contribution to structural functionalism.

• — (2008) [1912]. Cladis, Mark S., ed. Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse [The elementary forms of religious life]. Translated by Carol Cosman (Reissue ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954012-9.
• — (1982) [1919]. Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique [The rules of sociological method] (in French). transl. by W. D. Halls with an introduction by Steven Lukes (1st American ed.). New York, N.Y.: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-02-907940-9.

Demography

Demography is the statistical study of human population. It encompasses the study of the size, structure and distribution of these populations, and spatial and/or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, aging and death.

• Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798 1st edition) with A Summary View (1830), and Introduction by Professor Antony Flew. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-043206-X.
• Gunnar Myrdal and Alva Myrdal (1934). Crisis in the Population Question

Economy

Economic sociology attempts to explain economic phenomena. It overlaps with economics but concentrates on the roles of social relations and institutions.

• Tocqueville, Alexis De (2004) [1835/1840]. Zunz, Olivier, ed. Democracy in America. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. The Library of America. ISBN 1-931082-54-5.
• — (1955) [1856]. The Old Regime and the French Revolution. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. New York: Anchor Books.
• Durkheim, Emile (1997) [1893]. De La Division Du Travail Social [The division of labor in society] (1st paperback ed.). New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-83638-6.
• Simmel, George (2004) [1907]. The Philosophy of Money. Translated by David Frisby. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-34172-1.
• Weber, Max (1978) [1922]. Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Polanyi, Karl (1944). The Great Transformation: the political and economic origins of our time. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-5643-1.
• Hirschman, Albert O (1982). "Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?". Journal of Economic Literature. 20 (4): 1463–1484.
• Granovetter, Mark (1985). "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness". The American Journal of Sociology. 91 (3): 481–510. doi:10.1086/228311.
• White, Harrison C. 2002. Markets from Networks: Socioeconomic Models of Production. Princeton: Princeton University Press
• Smelser, Neil and Richard Swedberg (eds.). 2005 (2nd ed.). The Handbook of Economic Sociology.
• Boltanski, Luc; Chiapello, Ève (2005). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.
• Boltanski, Luc; Thévenot, Laurent (2006). On Justification. The Economies of Worth. Princeton University Press.

Industry

Industrial sociology is the sociology of technological change, globalization, labor markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations.

• Daniel Bell The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
• Harry Braverman Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
• Michael Burawoy Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism
• Ronald P. Dore British factory, Japanese factory; the origins of national diversity in industrial relations
• John Goldthorpe, David Lockwood, Frank Bechhofer and Jennifer Platt The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour

Environment

Environmental sociology studies the relationship between society and environment, particularly the social factors that cause environmental problems, the societal impacts of those problems, and efforts to solve the problems.

• Hannigan, John A. (1995). Environmental sociology : a social constructionist perspective (Reprint ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-11255-0.

Argues that a society's willingness to recognize and solve environmental problems depends more upon the way these claims are presented by a limited number of interest groups than upon the severity of the threat they pose.

• Schnaiberg, Alan; Gould, Kenneth Alan (2000). Environment and society : the enduring conflict. Caldwell, NJ: Blackburn. ISBN 1-930665-00-8.

Demonstrates how our global economy requires increasing levels of economic expansion, which in turn requires increasing withdrawals for the natural environment.

• Michelson, William (2002). Dunlap, Riley E., ed. Handbook of environmental sociology (1st published. ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-26808-3.

Provides an overview of the field of environmental sociology and its various research emphases.

• Carson, Rachel (2002) [1st. Pub. Houghton Mifflin, 1962]. Silent Spring. Mariner Books. ISBN 0-618-24906-0.
• Diamond, Jared (2006). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York, NY: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-303655-6.

Gender

Main article: Sociology of gender

• Bem, Sandra Lipsitz. 1994. Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. Yale University Press.
• Chodorow, Nancy. 1978 [1999]. The Reproduction of Mothering. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Collins, Patricia Hill. 2006. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
• Collins, Patricia Hill. 2005. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
• Connell, R. W. 1987. Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Connell, R. W. 2002. Gender: Short Introductions. Blackwell.
• Harding, S. (1991) Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives

Knowledge

See also: Sociology of scientific knowledge

Sociology of knowledge is the study of the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises, and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies.

• Mannheim, Karl (1985) [1936]. Ideology and utopia : an introduction to the sociology of knowledge. Translated from the German Ideologie und Utopie by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils (Facsimile ed.). San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 978-0-15-643955-8.
• Berger, Peter L.; Luckmann, Thomas (1991) [1966]. The social construction of reality : a treatise in the sociology of knowledge (reprint ed.). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-013548-0.
• Bloor, David (1991) [1976]. Knowledge and social imagery (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-06097-2.

Gave rise to the field known as Science and Technology Studies.

• Latour, Bruno; Woolgar, Steve (1979). Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts. Beverly Hills, Calif: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-8039-0993-4.

Ethnography of microbiologists working at the Salk Institute. Explains the elevation of observations to the level of fact through a system of credibility. Started the ethnographic laboratory studies movement in the sociology of knowledge.

• Fleck, Ludwik (1981). Trenn, Thaddeus J.; Merton, Robert K., eds. Genesis and development of a scientific fact. Translated by Fred Bradley; Thaddeus J. Trenn. Foreword by Thomas S. (Phoenix ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-25325-1.

Politics

Political sociology was traditionally concerned with how social trends, dynamics, and structures of domination affect formal political processes, as well as exploring how various social forces work together to change political policies. Now it is also concerned with the formation of identity through social interaction, the politics of knowledge and other aspects of social relations.

• Mills, C. Wright (2000) [1958]. The Power Elite. With a new afterword by Alan Wolfe (New ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513354-7.
• Domhoff, G. William (1967). Who Rules America?. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • — (2006). Who rules America? : power and politics, and social change (5th ed.). Boston, Mass: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-287625-3.
• Skocpol, Theda (1979). States and Social Revolutions: a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29499-7.
• Piven, Frances Fox; Cloward, Richard (1988). Why Americans Don't Vote. Pantheon Books.
  • - (2000). Why Americans still don't vote : and why politicians want it that way (Rev. and updated ed.). Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-0449-4.

Race and ethnicity

The sociology of race and ethnic relations is the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society. It encompasses racism and residential segregation.

• Du Bois, W. E. B. (2010) [1899]. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. p. 520. ISBN 978-1-163-25083-9.
• — (1996) [1903]. The Souls of Black Folk. Introduction by Donald B. Gibson (Penguin Classics reprint (paperback) ed.). New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-018998-X.
• Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

Religion

The sociology of religion concerns the role of religion in society: practices, historical backgrounds, developments and universal themes. There is particular emphasis on the recurring role of religion in all societies and throughout recorded history.

• Durkheim, Émile (2008) [1912]. Cladis, Mark S., ed. Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse [The elementary forms of religious life]. Translated by Carol Cosman (Reissue ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954012-9.
• Berger, Peter L. (2011) [1967]. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1-4532-1537-1.
• — (2011) [1970]. A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural. Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1-4532-1543-2.

Theory

Sociological theories are complex theoretical and methodological frameworks used to analyze and explain objects of social study. They facilitate organizing sociological knowledge.

Conflict theory

Conflict theory emphasizes social conflict and related issues such as economic inequality, social inequality, oppression and crime.

• Veblen, Thorstein (1994) [1899]. The Theory of the Leisure Class. Penguin twentieth-century classics. Introduction by Robert Lekachman. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-018795-3. OCLC 31212002.
• — (1978) [1904]. The Theory of Business Enterprise. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books. ISBN 0-87855-699-0.
• The Communist Manifesto
• A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
• Mills, C. Wright (2002) [1951]. White Collar: The American Middle Classes (50th anniversary ed.). New York: Oxford university press. ISBN 978-0-19-515708-6.
• — (2000) [1958]. The Power Elite. With a new afterword by Alan Wolfe (New ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513354-7.
• — (2000) [1959]. The sociological imagination. With a new afterword by Todd Gitlin (40. anniversary ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513373-8.
• Sharp, Gene (1985). Making Europe Unconquerable (1st ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harper & Row (Ballinger). ISBN 978-0-85066-329-7.

Rational choice theory

Rational choice theory models social behavior as the interaction of utility-maximizing individuals.

• Coleman, James S. (1990) Foundations of Social Theory
• Olson, Mancur (1971) The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-53751-3

Social network analysis

Social network analysis is structural approach to sociology that views norms and behaviors as embedded in chains of social relations. Makes use of network theory.

• Wellman, Barry; Berkowitz, S. D., eds. (1991) [1988]. Social structures : a network approach (1st publication, reprint ed.). Greenwich, Conn.: Jai Press. ISBN 978-0-7623-0290-1.
• Scott, John (2000) [1991]. Social network analysis : a handbook (2nd ed.). London: Sage. ISBN 978-0-7619-6339-4.
• Wasserman, Stanley; Faust, Katherine (1999) [1994]. Social network analysis : methods and applications (Reprint. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-521-38707-1.

These three books present a good basic introduction to social network analysis. Scott is the most general and most recent. Wasserman and Faust presents thorough methodological coverage. Wellman and Berkowitz is the most readable, theoretical and provides many case studies.

Sociocybernetics

See also: Sociology and Sociocybernetics

Sociocybernetics is the application of systems theory and cybernetics to sociology.

• Wiener, Norbert (1961) [1948]. Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (2nd revised ed.). MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-73009-9.
• Bertalanffy, Ludwig von (1971) [1968]. General system theory : foundations, development, applications (Rev. ed.). New York: G. Braziller. ISBN 0-8076-0453-4.
• Bateson, Gregory (2000) [1972]. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-03905-6.
• — (1979). Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences). Hampton Press. ISBN 1-57273-434-5.
• László, Ervin (1984). The systems view of the world : The natural philosophy of the new developments in the sciences. New York: G. Braziller. ISBN 0-8076-0636-7.
• Bateson, Gregory; Bateson, M. C. (1988). Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred. University Of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-553-34581-0.
• Bánáthy, Béla H. (1996). Designing social systems in a changing world. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-45251-0.

Structural functionalism

Structural functionalism is a broad perspective that interprets society as a structure with interrelated parts.

• Parsons, Talcott (1968) [1937]. The structure of social action : a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers (Pbk. (new) ed.). New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-02-924240-7.
• —; Shils, Edward A. (2001) [1951]. Toward a general theory of action : theoretical foundations for the social sciences. With a new introduction by Neil J.Smelser (Abridged ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7658-0718-2.
• — (1970) [1951]. The social system (Reprint ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7100-6902-3.

Urban

Urban sociology is the sociological study of social life and human interaction in metropolitan areas.

• Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life
• Park, Robert E.; Burgess, Ernest W.; McKenzie ; with an introduction by Morris Janowitz, Roderick D. (1984) [1925]. The City (Reprint ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-64611-4.

Foundational text in American sociology, Chicago school, Urban sociology, and Human ecology .

• Jacobs, Jane (1993) [1961]. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. With a new foreword by the author (Modern Library ed.). New York: Modern Library. ISBN 0-679-60047-7.

"... became perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning, and simultaneously helped to kill off the modern movement in architecture."

• Castells, Manuel (1977) [1972]. The urban question: a Marxist approach. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03063-2.
• Molotch, Harvey Logan; Logan, John R. (2007) [1987]. Urban fortunes: the political economy of place (20th anniversary ed.). Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press. ISBN 978-0-520-06341-9.

Turned mainstream sociological opinion against the Human Ecology school by foregrounding the influence of institutions and political settings in the growth of cities.

• Gottdiener, Mark; Hutchison, Ray (2000). The new urban sociology (2nd ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-289180-5.
• Hutter, Mark (2007). Experiencing cities : a global approach. Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon. ISBN 978-0-205-27451-2.
• Delany, Samuel R. (1999). Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. New York, New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-1919-8.

See also

• List of scientific journals in sociology

Sources

• Allan, Kenneth; Allan, Kenneth D. (2010). Explorations in classical sociological theory : seeing the social world (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press. ISBN 978-1-4129-7812-5.
• Appelrouth, Scott; Edles, Laura Desfor (2007). Sociological theory in the contemporary era : text and readings. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press. ISBN 978-0-7619-2801-0.
• Blau, Peter M. (1972). Hoselitz, Berthold Frank, ed. A reader's guide to the social sciences. Free Press.
• Caro, Francis G., ed. (1977). Readings in evaluation research (2d ed.). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-87154-201-4.
• Collins, Randall, ed. (1994). Four sociological traditions: selected readings (Revised and expanded ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508702-4.
• Edles, Laura Desfor; Appelrouth, Scott (2010). Sociological theory in the classical era : text and readings (2nd ed.). Los Angeles: Pine Forge Press. ISBN 978-1-4129-7564-3.
• Farganis, James, ed. (2011). Readings in social theory : the classic tradition to post-modernism (6th ed.). New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-811155-6.
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