Sociology

In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social sty...

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "...

Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” is a political treatise agai...

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern...

One of the most interesting topics of discussion, sociology, has been the subject of atte...

Conversations about race in the United States are fraught to the point of dysfunction. Wh...

Drawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies,...

A self-educated man, Eric Hoffer was most likely born in 1898. He wrote in his spare time...

Published in 2011, The Better Angels of Our Nature is a gloriously optimistic book. In it...

Published in 1961, the year of Frantz Fanon’s death, The Wretched of the Earth is b...

When American sociologist C. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination was first ...

Born in Prussia in 1864, just as the new forces of capitalism and the Industrial Revoluti...

How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigare...

This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS).This is a divided and chaotic...

“How emotional you are!” So often we hear this comment from a friend or ...