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Putnam - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743203046?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community</B></I></A></P> <P>" Carl E. Schorske - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691029466?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Thinking with History</B></I></A> [out of print] <P>" Donald N. Levine, ed. - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226757765?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms</B></I></A></P> <P>" Elizabeth Janeway - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394406966?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Powers of the Weak</B></I></A> [out of print]</P> <P>" Neil Postman - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014303653X?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business</B></I></A></P> <P>" Charles Lemert - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0742559351?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life</B></I></A></P> <P>" Oliver Sacks - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375704078?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Seeing Voices</B></I></A></P> <P>" Erving Goffman - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0202309711?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates</B></I></A></P> <P>" Thomas L. Friedman - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374185522?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization</B></I></A></P> <P>" Frantz Fanon - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802141323?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>The Wretched of the Earth</B></I></A></P> <P>" Tom Campbell - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198761058?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Seven Theories of Human Society</B></I></A></P> <P>" George Ritzer - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0205070736?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science</B></I></A> [out of print]</P> <P>" Jay MacLeod - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813343585?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood</B></I></A></P> <P>" Karen E. Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle C. Travis, eds. - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0073380059?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation</B></I></A> [reader]</P> <P>" Aldous Huxley - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060898526?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Brave New World</B></I></A> [fiction]</P> <P>" Herbert Blumer - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520056760?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method</B></I></A></P> <P>" Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060731338?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything</B></I></A></P> <P>" Max Weber - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140439218?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism</B></I></A></P> <P>" Michael J. Weiss - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060915994?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>The Clustering of America</B></I></A> [out of print]</P> <P>" Sara M. Evans - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394742281?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left</B></I></A> <P>" Michael Pollan - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143038583?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>The Omnivore's Dilemma</B></I></A></P> <P>" Elijah Anderson - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226018164?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community</B></I></A></P> <P>" Richard Wright - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061443085?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Black Boy</B></I></A></P> <P>" Maya Angelou - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345514408?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</B></I></A></P> <P>" Alex Haley, ed. - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812419537?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>The Autobiography of Malcolm X</B></I></A> <P>" Maryanne Wolf - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060933844?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain</B></I></A></P> <P>" Oliver Sacks - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033535?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain</B></I></A></P> <P>" Paul Fussell - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671792253?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Class: A Guide Through the American Status System</B></I></A></P> <P>" William H. Chafe - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019502365X?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Women and Equality: Changing Patterns in American Culture</B></I></A></P> <P>" Randall Collins - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195074424?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Sociological Insight: An Introduction to Non-Obvious Sociology</B></I></A></P> <P>" William A. Gamson - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/025601101X?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Power and Discontent</B></I></A> [out of print]</P> <P>" Marvin E. Olsen and Martin N. Marger - <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813312892?tag=xenophonica-20"><I><B>Power in Modern Societies</B></I></A> [out of print]</P> </BLOCKQUOTE></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SMALL><I>Updated May 2, 2010. http://www.adamahill.com/socbookshelf.html</I></SMALL></P></BLOCKQUOTE></TD></TR> </TABLE></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2" BACKGROUND="centerbg.jpg" ALIGN="center" HEIGHT="15"><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><P>Adam A. Hill, webmaster. 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