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92 Social Science Study Guides

Imagined Communities

Benedict Anderson

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In Search of Respect

Philippe Bourgois

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Whistling Vivaldi

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Reefer Madness

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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement

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The World Until Yesterday

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Life on the Outside

Jennifer Gonnerman

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Bobos in Paradise

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What Is Populism?

Jan-Werner Müller

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The Geography of Thought

Richard E. Nisbett

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Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert

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Strangers Drowning

Larissa Macfarquhar

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The True Believer

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Class Matters

The New York Times

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The Signal and the Noise

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The Better Angels of Our Nature

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The Great Escape

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Strangers in Their Own Land

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

Warren St. John

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Why People Believe Weird Things

Michael Shermer

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Our Guys

Bernard Lefkowitz

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Our Kids

Robert D. Putnam

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree

Thomas L. Friedman

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Us and Them

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The Broken Ladder

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Consilience

Edward O. Wilson

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The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

Alexandra Robbins

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The Worldly Philosophers

Robert Heilbroner

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Golden Arches East

James L. Watson

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A Tribe Apart

Patricia Hersch

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Ishi, Last of His Tribe

Theodora Kroeber

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Dirty Little Secrets

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All Our Kin

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In Defense of Elitism

William A. Henry III

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The Lucifer Effect

Philip G. Zimbardo

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Garbology

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Righteous Dopefiend

Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg

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What the Dog Saw

Malcolm Gladwell

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How Civil Wars Start

Barbara F. Walter

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Why We're Polarized

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Renegade Dreams

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The Pastoral Clinic

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The Spirit Level

Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett

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The Case Against Perfection

Michael J. Sandel

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Promises I Can Keep

Kathryn J. Edin, Maria J. Kefalas

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In Defense Of A Liberal Education

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Beyond Freedom and Dignity

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The Tyranny of Merit

Michael J. Sandel

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The Origins of the Modern World

Robert B. Marks

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The Interpretation of Cultures

Clifford Geertz

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Unequal Childhoods

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Bowling Alone

Robert D. Putnam

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The Division of Labor in Society

Émile Durkheim

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$2.00 a Day

Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer

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Son of the Revolution

Liang Heng, Judith Shapiro

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How Democracies Die

Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky

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The Undercover Economist

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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What the Best College Students Do

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Freakonomics

Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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The Nuer

E.E. Evans-Pritchard

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Patterns of Culture

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The Power Elite

C. Wright Mills

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An Economic Theory of Democracy

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Gang Leader For a Day

Sudhir Venkatesh

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Purity and Danger

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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

Charles Wheelan

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Death Without Weeping

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

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Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick J. Deneen

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The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Code of the Street

Elijah Anderson

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Democracy and Education

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Sidewalk

Mitchell Duneier

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Predictably Irrational

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The Closing of the American Mind

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The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life

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Why Gender Matters

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The Managed Heart

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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Slavery and Social Death

Orlando Patterson

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Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Bronislaw Malinowski

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Habits of the Heart

Robert N. Bellah

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The Sociological Imagination

C. Wright Mills

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Methland

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Going Solo

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The Nurture Assumption

Judith Rich Harris

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Necropolitics

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Everybody Lies

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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The Competitive Advantage Of Nations

Michael E. Porter

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The End of Poverty

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Development As Freedom

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