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IN SOCIOLOGY Max Weber
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IN SOCIOLOGY Max Weber
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Good Reading began publication in 1947 and in 1990 issued the 23rd edition of the work. The purpose of Good Reading: is "to lead an increasing number of people to savor the great or significant books, both those that strive to light the dark places in our understanding of our complex world and our equally complex selves, and those that aim simply to delight." The following list of books in sociology is from Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers (23rd ed., 1990.) and was compiled by William Ray Arney.
| Saul D. Alinsky | Rules for Radicals. 1971 |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Second Sex. 1953 |
| Ernst Becker | The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Sciences of Man. 1968 |
| Robert N. Bellah,
et al |
Habits of the Heart: Individulism and Commitment in American Life. 1985 |
| Peter Berger
Thomas Luckman |
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. 1966 |
| Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis |
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. 1976 |
| Harry Braverman | Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. 1975 |
| Noam Chomsky | Reflections on Language. 1987 |
| William Connolly | Politics and Ambiguity. 1987 |
| Mary Daly | Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. 1978 |
| Emile Durkeim | Suicide. Trans. 1951 |
| Emile Durkeim | The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Trans. 1951 |
| Barbara Ehrenreich
Deirdre English |
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of Experts' Advice to Women. 1978 |
| Kai T. Erikson | Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood. 1976 |
| Shulamith Firestone | The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. 1970 |
| Michel Foucault | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 1979 |
| Michel Foucault | Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite. 1980 |
| Paulo Freire | Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 1971 |
| Betty Friedan | The Feminine Mystique. 2nd Ed. 1974 |
| Fred M. Frohock | Special Care: Medical Decisions and the Beginning of Life. 1986 |
| Clifford Geertz | The Interpretation of Cultures. 1973 |
| Erving Goffman | The Preservation of Self in Everyday Life. 1958 |
| Douglas Harper | Good Company. 1982 |
| Michael Harrington | The Other America. 1964 |
| George Homans | Social Behavior: Its Elementary forms. Rev Ed. 1974 |
| Ivan Illich | Gender. 1982 |
| Ivan Illich
Barry Sanders |
ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind. 1988 |
| James Jones | Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. 1981 |
| Julia Kristeva | Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. 1982 |
| Thomas Kuhn | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd Ed. 1970 |
| Paul F. Larzarsfeld | Qualitative Analysis: Historical and Critical Essays. 1971 |
| Charles Lemert | French Sociology: Rupture and Renewal Since 1968. 1981 |
| Janet Malcolm | Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. 1981 |
| Michael Mann | The Sources of Social Power. 1986 |
| Herbert Marcuse | Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. 1966 |
| George Herbert Mead | Mind, Self, and Society, From the Standpoint of a Social Behavorist. 1934 |
| Donnella Meadows,
et al |
The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. 2nd Ed. 1974 |
| Robert Merton | Social Theory and Social Structure. Enl. Ed. 1968 |
| Stanley Milgram | Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. 1974 |
| Kate Millett | Sexual Politics. 1970 |
| C. Wright Mills | The Power Elite. 1956 |
| S. Wright Mills | The Sociological Imagination. 1959 |
| A.G. Mojtabai | Blessed Assurance: At Home With the Bomb in Amarillo,
Texas. 1986 |
| Talcott Parsons | The System of Modern Societies. 1971 |
| David Riesman | The Lonely Crowd. 1950 |
| Francois Roustang | Dire Mastery: Discipline From Freud to Lacan. 1982 |
| Theda Skocpol | States and Social Revolution: A Comparative Study of France, Russia, and China. 1979 |
| Paul Starr | The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession & the Making of a Vast Industry. 1982 |
| Max Weber | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. 1930 |
| Edward O. Wilson | Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. 1975 |
| William J. Wilson | The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions. 1978 |
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