This is not an exhaustive list of books; rather, it is a brief beginning to a
few specialized topics selected to help keep people reading sociology.
From time to time, the list will be updated.

Armstrong. Karen. 1993.
A History of God: The 4000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity
and Islam. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Babbie, Earl R. 1994.
What is Society? Reflections on Freedom, Order, and Change.
Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press.

Bell, Inge, and Bernard McGrane. 1999.
This Book Is Not Required (Revised Edition).
Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press.

Bellah, Robert, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler,
and Steven M. Tipton. 1985.
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Bellah, Robert, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler,
and Steven M. Tipton. 1991.
The Good Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Blau, Joel 1992.
The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States.
New York: Oxford University Press.

Bloom, Allan. 1987.
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has
failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students.
New York: Simon and Schuster.

Bloom, Harold. 1992.
The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation.
New York: Simon and Schuster.

Bourdieu, Pierre, and Jean-Claude Passeron. [1970] 1990.
Reproduction in Education, Society, and Culture.
London: Sage Publications.

Bruce, Steve. 1996.
Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Charon, Joel. 1995
Ten Questions: A Sociological Perspective.
Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co.

Collins, Randall. 1998.
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of
Intellectual Change.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Collins, Randall, 1995.
"Introduction." Max Weber. The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism.
Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company.

Dempster, Murray W., Byron Klaus, and
Douglas Peterson, eds. 1999.
Globalization and Pentecostalism.
Irvine, CA: Regnum Publishers.

Denzin, Norman K. 1991.
Images of Postmodern Society: Social Theory
and Contemporary Cinema.
New York: Sage Publications.

Derber, Charles. 1996.
The Wilding of America: How Greed and Violence Are
Eroding Our Nation's Character.
New York: St. Martin's Press.

Ehrlich, Paul R., and Anne H. Ehrlich. 1991.
The Population Explosion.
New York: Simon and Schuster.

Eitzen, D. Stanley. 1999
Fair and Foul: Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport.
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield

Ekland-Olson, Sheldon, and William R. Kelley. 1993.
Justice Under Pressure: A Comparison of Recidivism
Rates Among Four Successive Parolee Cohorts. Springer Verlag.

Etzioni, Amitai. 1999.
The Limits of Privacy.
New York: Basic Books.

Etzioni, Amitai. 1998.
The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a
Democratic Society.
New York: Basic Books.

Etzioni, Amitai. 1994.
The Spirit of Community: The Reinvention of America.
New York: Touchstone Books.

Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. 1998.
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
Seventh Edition. Volume One
New York: McGraw-Hill.

Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. 1998.
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
Seventh Edition. Volume Two.
New York: McGraw-Hill.

Goode, Erich. 1997.
Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate.
New York: St. Martin's Press.

Greeley, Andrew M. 1989.
Religious Change in America.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Greeley, Andrew M. 1995.
Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings.
New York: HarperCollins.

Hacker, Andrew. 1992.
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Harding, Sandra. 1991.
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives.
Cornell, NY: Cornell University Press.

Johnson, Paul. 1988
Intellectuals. New York: Harper and Row.

Kendall, Diana. 1997.
Race, Class, and Gender in a Diverse Society: A Text-Reader.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Kennedy, Paul. 1987.
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
New York: Random House.

Kennedy, Paul. 1993.
Preparing for the Twenty-First Century.
New York: Random House

Konner, Melvin. 1990.
Why the Reckless Survive.
New York: Penguin Books.

Kornblum, William, with Carolyn D. Smith. 1994.
The Healing Experience: Readings on the Social Context
of Health Care.
East Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Kosmin, Barry A., and Seymour P. Lachman. 1993.
One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society.
New York: Harmony Books.

Kozol, Jonathan. 1991.
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.

Ladner, Joyce. Editor. 1973.
The Death of White Sociology. New York: Random House.

LaFeber, Walter. 1999.
Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism.
New York: Norton.

Lasch, Christopher. 1991.
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics.
New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

Lofland, John, and Lyn H. Lofland. 1995.
Analyzing Social Settings: A guide to Qualitative
Observation and Analysis.
Belmont, Cal: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Lopreato, Joseph. 1984.
Human Nature and Biocultural Evolution.
Boston: Allen &Unwin.

Lopreato, Joseph, and Timothy Crippen. 1999.
Crisis in Sociology: The Need For Darwin.
Transaction Books.

Maccoby, Eleanor E. 1998
The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Marquart, James W., Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorenson. 1998.
The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990.
Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press.

Martin, William. 1996.
With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America.
New York: Broadway Books.

McBride, James. 1996.
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.
New York: Riverhead Books.

Merquior, J. G. 1991.
Liberalism Old and New. Boston: Twayne Publishers.

Montgomery, William E. 1993.
Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American
Church in the South, 1865-1900.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Nielsen, Kai, and Robert Ware, editors. 1997.
Exploitation. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.

Parenti, Michael. 1994.
Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America.
New York: St. Martin's Press.

Patterson, Orlando. 1992.
Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. Volume 1.
New York: Basic Books.

Patterson, Orlando. 1997.
The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in
America's "Racial" Crisis.
New York: Counterpoint Books.

Patterson, Orlando. 1999.
Freedom: Freedom in the Modern World. Volume 2.
New York: Basic Books.

Ritzer, George. 1994.
Sociological Beginnings: On the Origins of Key Ideas in Sociology.
Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press.

Rosenau, Pauline Marie. 1992.
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences:
Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Ruane, Janet M., and Karen A. Cerullo. 1997.
Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom
Through the Sociological Eye.
Thousand Oaks, Cal: Pine Forge Press.

Rubin, Beth A. 1996.
Shifts in the Social Contract: Understanding Change in American Society.
Thousand Oaks, Cal: Pine Forge Press.

Sernau, Scott. 1997.
Critical Choices: Applying Sociological Insight in
Your Life, Family, and Community.
Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company.

Skolnick, Arlene. 1991.
Embattled Paradise: The American Family
in an Age of Uncertainty.
New York: Basic Books.

 Smith, Dorothy. 1987.
The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology.
Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Staples, Robert, editor. 1998
The Black Family: Essays and Studies.
Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Staples, William G. 1997.
The Culture of Surveillance:
Discipline and Social Control in the United States.
New York: St. Martin's Press.

Stephens, W. Richard, Jr. 1999.
Careers in Sociology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Sztompka, Piotr. 1986.
Robert K. Merton: An Intellectual Profile.
New York: St. Martin's Press.

Turner, Bryan S. Editor. 1990.
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity.
London: Sage.

Weber, Max. 1995.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Introduction by Randall Collins).
Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company.

Wilson, E. O. 1998.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

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