Sociologists Books


Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets Best Price: $16.00 I guess this is what happens when someone writes a book that should ooze with anger and emotion,...	Morrie: In His Own Words Best Price: $2.86 The book is a companion read of "Tuesdays with Morrie." Although both books cover...	Down These Mean Streets Best Price: $7.00 Down These Mean Streets is the story of Piri Thomas' journey into adulthood. The book is set in...	Classmates, The: Privilege, Chaos, and the End of an Era Best Price: $8.60 Classmates, The: Privilege, Chaos, and the End of an Era Interesting & well written look...	Manson in His Own Words Best Price: $7.91 I HAVE READ ALL MEDIA EXPOSED IDEAS OF THE STORY OF MANSON AND HIS SO CALLED FAMILY.I JUDGE ALL...



The Happy Hooker: My Own Story Best Price: $6.99 Anyone who can sell well over 15 million copies of their book, must have something going for...	And when did you last see your father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss Best Price: $6.89 A very moving book. That every adult man or woman should read about the relationship between...	Otto Neurath Best Price: $29.70 Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath was a seminal Modernist figure. Much attention has been given...	Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story Best Price: $4.98 It was hard to get into,it was supposed ot be about cases and a caseworker, and the stories are...	With a Daughter's Eye: Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, A Best Price: $1.88 Margaret Mead was one of my heroines when I was growing up. How fascinating to read this...



When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss Best Price: $7.94 Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim...	Sketch for a Self-Analysis Best Price: $20.00 Over the past four decades, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most...	Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society (Heritage of Sociology Series) Best Price: $13.77 This book provides a good overview of Durkheim's work, but since it is just excerpts it's hard...	Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.98 This book addresses global issues, immigration policy, womens rights, civil rights, and the...	Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems (Ideas Explained) Best Price: $15.44 This book surprised me since I received it from Amazon and immediately started reading it! I am...

Cosmic Trigger III : My Life After Death (Cosmic Trigger) Best Price: $29.95 If you enjoyed the first two Cosmic Trigger books, pick this one up. I would recommend reading...	At the Still Point Best Price: $3.00 Carol the youngest of 10 children of the famous Buckley family has given us a detail look at...	The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) Best Price: $28.32 Long recognized as a foundational figure in the development of social scientific thought, Emile...	Around the World in 30 Years: Life as a Cultural Anthropologist Best Price: $13.00 The author is amazing. Having travelled all around the world and to write a brilliant book about...	Classical Sociological Theory: Rediscovering the Promise of Sociology Best Price: $38.79 Based on the theme that the authors call "rediscovering the promise of sociology,"...

The Limits of Hope: An Adoptive Mother's Story Best Price: $6.90 This book was very interesting. The author seems ot have a big heart, yet is very weeary about...	Locating Bourdieu (New Anthropologies of Europe) Best Price: $19.82 Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) had an enormous influence on social and cultural thought in the...	Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood Best Price: $0.01 This book is a warm, witty and intricate look at the author's childhood and teenage years in the...	A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term Best Price: $29.92	A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians (Women in the West) Best Price: $6.70 I am always grateful to find "yet one more" dynamic 19th century woman raised up. And...

Adorno in America Best Price: $13.03 Written by David Jenemann (assistant professor of English, University of Vermont) Adorno in...	In the Footsteps of Adam: A Memoir Best Price: $14.78 The Norwegian born Mr Heyerdahl was an athlete, explorer and writer par excellance, who wroter...	Bean Blossom Dreams: A City Family's Search for a Simple Country Life Best Price: $10.84 Hi, this is Charley Murphey - the daughter :) I may be nearly twenty now and heading toward my...	Dream Notes Best Price: $13.79 German philosopher and cultural critic Theodor W. Adorno wrote down his dreams throughout his...	Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth Best Price: $19.94 Minotaur by Joseph MacGillivray This book presents itself as a readable biography of one the...

Dharma Girl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations Best Price: $63.15 This is a very moving account of a young girl who feels the need to reconnect with her roots. ...	Paul Virilio (Routledge Critical Thinkers) Best Price: $21.77 Paul Virilio is a challenging and original thinker whose work on technology, state power and war...	West of the Thirties: Discoveries Among the Navajo and Hopi Best Price: $36.35 This was a book that I stumbled upon quite by accident, looking at a shelf of books on...	Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study Best Price: $46.92 This is the best book ever written concerning Emile Durkheim	After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) Best Price: $13.95 I developed a strong preference for Geertz and his methodology during my undergraduate studies....

HABERMAS: THE KEY CONCEPTS (Routledge Key Guides) Best Price: $21.39 An independently-minded champion of "the project of modernity" in a supposedly...	Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology Best Price: $18.92 For anyone that has read Tearoom Trade, this biography helps to answer a lot of questions about...	Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel Best Price: $6.59 The book's great. A complete account of the life and times of one of the 1960's New Left's major...	Chicago Days/Hoboken Nights Best Price: $1.96 As a fan of Daniel Pinkwater's eccentric stories, I was delighted to find a copy of...	Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings Best Price: $5.29 Morell's astounding level of research reveals the Leakeys individually, as a family, and as...

Stuart Hall (Routledge Critical Thinkers) Best Price: $18.84 Stuart Hall is one of the founding fathers of Cultural Studies. Having famously coined the term...	Erving Goffman (Key Sociologists) Best Price: $27.54 Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922-82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps...	Max Weber: Politics And The Spirit Of Tragedy Best Price: $7.50 While the treatment of Weber's life and thoughts is quite useful and rather well written, the...	The Radical Durkheim Best Price: $29.95	Rethinking Race: Franz Boas and His Contemporaries Best Price: $22.00

Beyond the Enlightenment: Lives and Thoughts of Social Theorists Best Price: $20.25 Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought--ideas which continue to hold great...	Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures Best Price: $1.95 No one should dispute Leakey's dedication to the wildlife and people of his native Kenya. This...	Tales Of The Lavender Menace: A Memoir Of Liberation Best Price: $0.77 Oh, what a fun read! This is one person's perspective, one person's story. Karla Jay does not...	Tales Of The Lavender Menace: A Memoir Of Liberation Best Price: $0.77 Oh, what a fun read! This is one person's perspective, one person's story. Karla Jay does not...	Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948 (Folklore and Society) I just finished LAST CAVALIER and without question consider it the best biography I've read in...

De Tocqueville (Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought) Best Price: $41.70 Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the most renowned and debated figures in contemporary political...	Kindness of Strangers This book was so entertaining. I couldn't put it down. I kept wondering what would happen on the...	Ruth Benedict: A Humanist in Anthropology (Columbia Classics in Anthropology) Best Price: $5.20 By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict (1887--1948),...	This Death by Drowning This is a collection of memoir-like essays by Nebraska poet William Kloefkorn, all of them...	Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows Best Price: $64.95 I'll admit when this first came out, I wasn't interested. In my journey to become better at...

Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years Best Price: $10.49 This is a wonderful book to read for those interested in Mead's personality. I was surprised to...	C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings Best Price: $3.92 Having regarded "Sociological Imagination" one of the few most exciting books written...

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